Benoît Mandelbrot, is gone forever and noiselessly hardly be mentioned in media, on Thursday October 14 due to pancreatic cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 85.
He died a scientist "who cares? , probably will not even know the name of this maverick mathematician who dared to look beyond the regular and smooth shapes of Euclidean geometry and found new dimensions in the roughness of nature, as in own words "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, the bark is not smooth ... and the lightning travel in straight lines.
In science, particularly in math sometimes hear about the beauty of an equation or a theory, although we find non-specialist audience difficult to perceive the idea of \u200b\u200bbeauty in the cold numbers of a general law or a mathematical operation. Not so with fractals, it is difficult not to associate them with ideas and elegance, harmony and aesthetic appeal as part of their essence.
But you better bring us to the world of fractal geometry of the hand of his own creator, and that he himself Mandelbrot which we will clarify how all this in one of his last appearances, a talk by TEDTalks we can enjoy subtitled in Castilian:
Fractals and art of how irregular.
few years ago, interviewed by Eduardo Punset in Networks program.
Not everything is smooth in life.
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