I actually met Benoit Mandelbrot when I was an intern at IBM’s T. J. Watson research center in the late '80s. I was randomly walking around the building and passed by a tiny office with “B. Mandelbrot” on the door. I stuck my head in, saw an old bald dude sitting there and said “are you the Bernard Mandelbrot?” He said “yes” and I said “oh” and walked on. Apparently he didn’t hear that I said “Bernard” instead of “Benoit”.
Mandelbrot
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 months ago
charlytune@mander.xyz 7 months ago
What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
‘I’m so meta even this acronym’
expatriado@lemmy.world 7 months ago
this is a draft, the cartoonist is still working on the third panel
prof@infosec.pub 7 months ago
There’s a cool rabbit hole you can dive into when it comes to coastline lengths of some countries. Specifically the UK.
Depending on who measured the coastline and with which method the results can be wildly different because there’s always some form of simplification required. See this video for example: Link
TheControlled@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Try Canada on for size.
QProphecy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The devil is in the details.
khuldraeseth@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Not a mathematician. Does the boundary have infinite length, or just infinite detail?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Yes
Subverb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
Bolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not in a finite space, no. But it could have infinite detail without infinite length (like the square with corners folded in to approximate a circle).
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Mandlebrotwurst. Infinite sausage.
42yeah@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Don’t look closer, or you won’t be able to come out ever again.
comrade19@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can someone explain pls
Frenchy@aussie.zone 7 months ago
This is a fractal made from the Mandelbrot set. I guess the joke is that the more you zoom in the edges the more detail there is, so doing them would be pretty much impossible.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.
Callmesuperman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
From the mandelbrot boundary wiki: “Images of the Mandelbrot set exhibit an infinitely complicated boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications”
comrade19@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thankyou. Even as a concept I find it creepy
RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 7 months ago
Pathological monsters!
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A splinter in my eye
Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It definitelly doesn’t pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn…
MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just more turtles all the way down.
captainjaneway@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Resolution limits
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level
Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 months ago
It would still take a while to edge individual blades of grass