Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85
16-10-2010, 16:28
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Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85
"Benoit B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us...er=rss&emc=rss
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16-10-2010, 17:20
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85
I remember programming my ZX81 to generate a Mandelbrot set - it took about 4 days, IIRC.
RIP Mr Mandelbrot
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16-10-2010, 18:12
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85
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I remember programming my ZX81 to generate a Mandelbrot set - it took about 4 days, IIRC.
RIP Mr Mandelbrot
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Surprised it didn't explode... 
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16-10-2010, 18:20
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Re: Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85
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Surprised it didn't explode... |
If you looked slightly askance at the 16Kb RAM pack the ZX81 would freeze and crash.
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