Friday, October 29, 2010

Celebrity Friday: Benoit Mandelbrot


Benoit Mandelbrot
, the father of the "fractal," died at the age of 85 on Thursday October 14. The Mandelbrot  set, pictured above, is one of the most famous and canonical example of a fractal, a shape with "self-similarity" so that no matter how closely one looks at the object, copies of itself appear to be present, in an infinite progression.

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