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 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
charlytune@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
‘I’m so meta even this acronym’
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
this is a draft, the cartoonist is still working on the third panel
prof@infosec.pub 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Try Canada on for size.
QProphecy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The devil is in the details.
khuldraeseth@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Not a mathematician. Does the boundary have infinite length, or just infinite detail?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yes
Subverb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
Bolt@lemmy.world 1 week 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 2 weeks ago
Mandlebrotwurst. Infinite sausage.
42yeah@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Don’t look closer, or you won’t be able to come out ever again.
comrade19@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can someone explain pls
Frenchy@aussie.zone 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Thankyou. Even as a concept I find it creepy
RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Pathological monsters!
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A splinter in my eye
Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It definitelly doesn’t pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn…
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just more turtles all the way down.
captainjaneway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Resolution limits
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level
Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
It would still take a while to edge individual blades of grass