Remembering The Father of Fractals

I was e-mailed a great article from brain pickings and thought I'd share it.  The link to the article also has a TED talks with Mandelbrot that is great if you have time to watch it. 


"I prefer the word roughness to the word irregularity because irregularity — to someone who had Latin in my long-past youth — means the contrary of regularity. But it is not so. Regularity is the contrary of roughness because the basic aspect of the world is very rough.” ~ Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît Mandelbrot in conversation with our greatest creative and curatorial hero, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, at a SEED/MoMA salon in 2008:

The power of fractals is that they’re so instinctive, immediate graspable, even without knowing there’s a geometric law behind them.” ~ Paola Antonelli

Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/18/remembering-benoit-madelbrot/#ixzz1ImHogtRW