#Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[screaming-weevil]

BEN!!!!

[yuritypology]

the b in benoit b mandelbrot stands for benoit b mandelbrot

[pineapplerulez]

The B in Benoit B Mandelbrot stand for Benoit B Mandelbrot

[draculagerard]

CAT IMAGES!

This is stanislavsky. He is a muppet somebody accidentally brought to life. He likes to climb on people's shoulders, purr, drool, nibble noses, and hiss at anything he hasn't seen before. We used to take him outside on a harness but he would cry and howl and pine so wretchedly every time we brought him back into the house that we have to keep him inside all the time 😭

Here's Benoit B Mandelbrot (the B stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot). He's weird.

And here they are together <3 my little gay lads.

OH MY GODD SO MANY CAT IMAGES :0 man they are so pretty.. also i love their names :0 stanislavsky seems so silly. the second to last photo where he's just in a basket and Benoit B (Benoit B Mandelbrot) Mandelbrot is just staring <3

[nablah]

the only bbm i stan is benoit b mandelbrot mathematician and supreme purveyor of fractals

[warningsine]

A densely wrought exploration of Mandelbrot equations, the Droste effect, the Barnsley theorem, and other thorny problems of mathematics.

“How long is the coastline of Cornwall, UK?” That’s a question that would have sent Newton and even Einstein into the depths of despair. It’s owing to an insight by Polish-born mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot that we can map out the three-dimensional world in which we live to some degree of certainty thanks to fractals, which, in nature, reveal themselves to be miniature images of the larger whole: “the magnified detail,” writes Cambridge econometrician Linton, “is exactly the same as the whole thing.”

The attendant conceptual difficulty is that any map that is sufficiently detailed to reveal the whole accurately will be the size of the whole thing itself: A map of the universe would be the size of the universe, a thought that would have pleased Jorge Luis Borges. Lacking room and the wherewithal to prove the point with that map, mathematicians have come to develop numerical shortcuts—but those shortcuts are extraordinarily demanding of data, such that the GPS in your car relies on billions of numbers even as “nature…uses fractals for reasons of economy.”

This is not a book for the mathematically weak of heart. Although it’s admirably short, certainly as compared to what might have happened to the discussion in the hands of a Douglas Hofstadter, each page bristles with equations and heady prose: “The pattern is clear; if you need l unit objects to make it m times larger then the number of dimensions the object has is d where l = md.”

If that sort of writing is your cup of pi, then Linton’s compact explication of fractals will be child’s play; others will be flummoxed.A small treasure for those who enjoy brain teasers and mathematical formulas.

[circle-girls-tower]

"What does the B tsk stand for in Benoit B. Mandelbrot?"

"...Bernard?"

"Tsk Benoit B. Mandelbrot."

"That doesn't...oh."

[foone]

My middle initial is B, for Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

I AM fractal girls.

As far as I can tell, girlposting on Tumblr operates according to roughly the same principles as the Border Mythic in the tabletop roleplaying game Nobilis: specifically, it is the power of attention which distinguishes a girl from her environment. Not only may any thing be a girl, but each constituent of a girl may itself be raised from the welter of experience and awakened to girlhood through the power of diligent observation. Thus, the rivergirl is a girl whole and complete, yet if one looks more closely, each droplet of water which comprises the rivergirl will resolve itself into a dropletgirl; and each molecule of H₂O making up each dropletgirl, into a moleculegirl; and so forth; and yet the rivergirl remains one and whole.

[numb3rth30ry]

1. Mandelbulb.

2. Mandelbulb.

3. Broccoli(?).

4. Mandelbroccoli...(?).

Mathematics is beautiful. <3

[somethoughtseeds]

[i-wish-u-heaven]

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

[foone]

When I was picking my name, I was pretty sure I wanted Foone and Turing but I took a while to pick my middle name. At first I was like "I'll just do Alan! Foone Alan Turing!" and that lasted a while until someone posted out the initials.

Yeah, no.

You're just jealous because you can't disable all electronics in the immediate area.

[screaming-weevil]

Him face

[likewithclouds879]

Y’all there is a Wikipedia page for math jokes

I’m thrilled and also losing my mind

[art-of-mathematics]

Another recursive acronym is the name of the pioneer of fractal geometry himself (which makes it somewhat double self-referent); Benoit B. Mandeltbrot. Since the second B in his name is often merely an unknown mystery, we just assume the B stands for "Benoit B. Mandelbrot"...

GIMP stands for "GIMP is my photoshop".

(You can further indulge in the fun of recursive acronyms...)

[tomorrowillbeyou]

...a ball of 10cm diameter made of a thick thread of 1mm diameter possesses (in latent fashion) several distinct effective dimensions.

To an observer placed far away, the ball appears as a zero-dimensional figure: a point... As seen from a distance of 10cm resolution, the ball of thread is a three-dimensional figure. At 10mm, it is a mess of one-dimensional threads. At 0.1mm, each thread becomes a column and the whole becomes a three-dimensional figure again. At 0.01mm, each column dissolves into fibers, and the ball again becomes one-dimensional, and so on, with the dimension crossing over repeatedly from one value to another. When the ball is represented by a finite number of atomlike pinpoints, it becomes zero-dimensional again. An analogous sequence of dimensions and crossovers is encountered in a sheet of paper.

The notion that a numerical result should depend on the relation of object to observer is in the spirit of physics in this [the 20th] century and is even an exemplary illustration of it.

Benoit B. Mandelbrot