{"id":176,"date":"2010-10-18T22:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-10-18T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T22:37:12","slug":"mandelbrot-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/archives\/176","title":{"rendered":"Mandelbrot Dies At 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a strange twist of events after beginning research on fractal geometry and in the middle of reading The Fractal Geometry of Nature<\/em>, I found out today that the person who is responsible for giving me so much clarity in the exploration of my inclination toward art making has died. Tonight I am about to start a new project that was inspired by Mandelbrot’s thoughts on coastlines and I thought it only appropriate to quote him and the New York Times article on his death.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Mandelbrot traced his work on fractals to a question he first encountered as a young researcher: how long is the coast of Britain? The answer, he was surprised to discover, depends on how closely one looks. On a map an island may appear smooth, but zooming in will reveal jagged edges that add up to a longer coast. Zooming in further will reveal even more coastline.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Here is a question, a staple of grade-school geometry that, if you think about it, is impossible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dr. Mandelbrot told The New York Times earlier this year in an interview. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The length of the coastline, in a sense, is infinite.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ”
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/17\/us\/17mandelbrot.html<\/a><\/p>\n

To me, Mandelbrot was a mathematical poet and came closer than anyone to blurring the hard drawn line between nature and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a strange twist of events after beginning research on fractal geometry and in the middle of reading The Fractal Geometry of Nature, I found out today that the person who is responsible for giving me so much clarity in the exploration of my inclination toward art making has died. Tonight I am about to start a new project that was inspired by Mandelbrot’s thoughts on coastlines and I thought it only appropriate to quote him and the New York … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cschulze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}