Benoit Mandelbrot (rip) And The Quest For A Theory Of Really Everything

[Tormod]

A really nice eulogy for Benoit Mandelbrot in SciAm:

 

The passing of the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has triggered in me a wave of nostalgia for the 1980s' date=' when Mandelbrot and other researchers seemed to be creating a scientific revolution. They hoped that sophisticated new mathematical techniques, plus increasingly powerful computers, could help them fathom a wide range of complex, nonlinear phenomena—from brains and immune systems to economies and climate—that had resisted analysis by the reductionist methods of the past.[/quote']

 

Recommended:

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=benoit-mandelbrot-rip-and-the-quest-2010-10-18

[JMJones0424]

And at New Scientist

 

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/10/fractalist-benoit-mandelbrot-d.html

 

Mandelbrot may be gone. But the beauty of his fractals live on. You only have to look around you to be reminded of his insights. In his own words: "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."

[jakuta]

A really nice eulogy for Benoit Mandelbrot in SciAm:

 

 

 

Recommended:

 

http://www.scientifi...uest-2010-10-18

 

Well, it is simple logic that a theory of everything is impossible.

[Kharakov]

Well, it is simple logic that a theory of everything is impossible.

 

It's simple logic that anyone can have a theory of everything. Mine is that everything includes everything.

 

Of course you probably refer to a physical theory of everything. A physical theory of everything could come into existence if the nature of everything is such that it causes an accurate theory of itself to occur....

 

Here are a few of my 3d Complex Compound Mandelbrot set images:

 

 

And a 6 dimensional one:

[Tormod]

Nice images, Kharakov. You should put them in our gallery - http://scienceforums.com/gallery/. I'll do it for you if you don't mind.

[Kharakov]

Nice images, Kharakov. You should put them in our gallery - http://scienceforums.com/gallery/. I'll do it for you if you don't mind.

Go ahead. There are more over in my Picasa web album, if you'd like to pick a few to have available locally.

 

If anyone wants to play with this type of fractal, I've written formulas for ChaosPro (freeware fractal software), although we should probably start another thread if people want pointers on the usage of my fractal and coloring formulas. I also don't know whether I've uploaded the latest of my formulas, which were used to generate some of the images in my web album... so... I suppose I should get Kraken on that, as Hades would say....

[CraigD]

Printed this little Mandelbrot set color image and wore it on my shirt today as a eulogy/conversation starter. Alas, I surrounded by mostly youngsters, who recognize the image but not the person, so had to repeat a little history lecture half a dozen times.

 

So long, Benoit, and thanks for all the math!

[jakuta]

Kharakov[/url]' timestamp='1287457891' post='301338']

It's simple logic that anyone can have a theory of everything. Mine is that everything includes everything.

 

Nice pics.

 

Thanks