{"id":2639,"date":"2010-10-19T01:50:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/mandlebrot-gone\/"},"modified":"2010-11-04T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:56:56","slug":"mandlebrot-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/19\/mandlebrot-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandlebrot Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85<\/h1>\n
By JASCHA HOFFMAN<\/h6>\n

Published: October 16, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Mandelbrot coined the term \u201cfractal\u201d to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours could mimic the irregularities found in nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cApplied mathematics had been concentrating for a century on phenomena which were smooth, but many things were not like that:\u00a0the more you blew them up with a microscope the more complexity you found<\/a>,\u201d said David Mumford, a professor of mathematics at\u00a0Brown University<\/a>. \u201cHe was one of the primary people who realized these were legitimate objects of study.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a seminal book,\u00a0\u201cThe Fractal Geometry of Nature,\u201d<\/a> published in 1982, Dr. Mandelbrot defended mathematical objects that he said others had dismissed as \u201cmonstrous\u201d and \u201cpathological.\u201d Using fractal geometry, he argued, the complex outlines of clouds and coastlines, once considered unmeasurable, could now \u201cbe approached in rigorous and vigorous quantitative fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85 By JASCHA HOFFMAN Published: October 16, 2010 Dr. Mandelbrot coined the term \u201cfractal\u201d to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours could mimic the irregularities found in nature. \u201cApplied mathematics had been concentrating for a century on phenomena which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}