few days ago is not Benoît Mandelbrot, known to all mathematicians and computer to be developed and disseminated to the theory of fractals One of the few mathematical objects to combine simplicity (in the formulation), complexity (in development) and artistic beauty. A must-read is his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature.
Famous is his Mandelbrot set : who has spent countless hours exploring the intricacies, thanking the ever-increasing speed of its CPU and for their graphics, playing with one of the many programs available?
Update: the concept of fractal is illustrated in a simple and intuitive in his recent speech TED2010 event.
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