{"id":2828,"date":"2010-10-16T17:14:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2010-10-16T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T17:14:54","slug":"rip-benoit-mandelbrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"RIP Benoit Mandelbrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great, insightful, genius mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is gone.<\/p>\n<p>His revolutionary work can be and is now applied everywhere, including economics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1465\" title=\"BLOGDIAL  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Black Swans and Monetary Monocultures\">http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1465<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Merci+proresseur!#hl=en&amp;expIds=17259,17291,22881,24999,25532,26637,27151&amp;sugexp=ldymls&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=fractal+compression&amp;cp=7&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g4g-o1&amp;aql=&amp;oq=fractal&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=80834014c217cffa\" title=\"Google\">Image compression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=uses+of+fractal+geometry\" title=\"Google\">so much more<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The object that he is best known for in popular culture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0jGaio87u3A\" title=\"YouTube\n        - Deepest Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation ever - a New Record! 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)\">The Mandelbrot Set<\/a> is iconic, profound and beautiful all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Merci professeur!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great, insightful, genius mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is gone. His revolutionary work can be and is now applied everywhere, including economics: http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1465 Image compression. And so much more&#8230;. The object that he is best known for in popular culture, The Mandelbrot Set is iconic, profound and beautiful all at the same time. Merci professeur!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,36,580,5,20,18],"tags":[752,1398,1561,1396,1397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}