Resolution limits
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I actually met Benoit Mandelbrot when I was an intern at IBM's T. J. Watson research center in the late '80s. I was randomly walking around the building and passed by a tiny office with "B. Mandelbrot" on the door. I stuck my head in, saw an old bald dude sitting there and said "are you the Bernard Mandelbrot?" He said "yes" and I said "oh" and walked on. Apparently he didn't hear that I said "Bernard" instead of "Benoit".
What does the 'B' in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Semi related: There's a cool rabbit hole you can dive into when it comes to coastline lengths of some countries. Specifically the UK.
Depending on who measured the coastline and with which method the results can be wildly different because there's always some form of simplification required. See this video for example: Link
Not a mathematician fractologist. Does the boundary have infinite length, or just infinite detail?
It can't have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
Pathological monsters!
Can someone explain pls
This shape is a fractal made from the Mandelbrot set. I guess the joke is that the more you zoom in the edges the more detail there is, so doing them would be an impossibly infinite task. https://mander.xyz/post/8966692[More info on the Mandelbrot set here.](https://mander.xyz/post/8966692)
This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.
From the mandelbrot boundary wiki: "Images of the Mandelbrot set exhibit an infinitely complicated boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications"
It definitelly doesn't pay to be detail-oriented when doing a fractal lawn...
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