[lit-ideas] Re: Benoit Mandelbrot
- From: "Edward Gleason" <egleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:01:32 -0400
Perhaps one of his most enduring achievements
will be the visualization of complex quadratics
(with the aid of Hubbard and Douady, who
properly named the Mandelbrot set in his honor.)
The principal of self-similarity (or, for his
set, quasi self-similarity) will likely
remain the contribution most remembered
by other disciplines.
Edward
>>> John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> 10/17/2010 7:07 AM >>>
One of the truly brilliant minds of our time. How many thinkers do you know
whose influence is visible in design, mathematics, economics and
proliferating in fields like sociology, e.g., in Andrew Abbott's *Chaos of
Disciplines.*
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*John
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Important thinker whose work arguably has important philosophical
> implications - for example, on the relation between maths and physics and on
> information theory, whatever that is.
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11560101
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> Donal
> London
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