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Offline Yaloopy

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Benoit Mandelbrot is dead.
« on: October 18, 2010 »
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay8OMOsf6AQ[/youtube]
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot is dead.
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2010 »
Rest In Peace Dude.
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot is dead.
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2010 »
RIP
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot is dead.
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2010 »
I have learned something new - I thought that fractals had been discovered centuries ago.
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot is dead.
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2010 »
I think the genius of Mandelbrot was to be the first to use computers to visualise fractals and so make them accessible to the general public.  Prior to that it was just nasty equations. RIP.

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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot is dead.
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2010 »
Rest In Peace Benoit.
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