While muddling through some finance courses, I came across Dow’s theory which reminded me of dear Mandelbrot, god Rest his soul! I thought to myself he’s really gone. My my, he’s-reaa-lly-gone.
I knew it before, but then it was like a piece of distraughting news that wore off and that’s it. Now after more than a month, I just realize what a loss this is and I can’t help mourning a bit.
I learnt about Benoît Mandelbrot when I read about the famous length of the British coast. I fell afterwards for the fractals, since they’re claming something I’ve been fighting for myself for so long: would it be people or things, you’ll always earn a specific amount depending of how you zoom. If you’re an inconsiderate bastard, you’ll use a grotesque unit, too gross to be a bit subtile and therefore get something as grotesque in return as knowledge. If you’re a bit thoughtful to take in consideration the curves, the rough patches, then you’ll earn a bit of subtile knowledge and so on.
Nowadays, people “don’t have time to waste in understanding correctly something”: eather they’re using Methods of Infinite Elements or labelization. Nowadays, people state the British Coast is 2400 km long. Nowadays, people state life is so effing awful just because they managed to prepare for a 2400 km journey yet they were too tired and hungry to finish half of the distance.
Nowadays, people are just too moron to understand they won’t understand correctly if they don’t emphasize correctly è__é!
Well, guess what? Study Fractals you §#!µ è____é. Or at least, take in consideration the fact you haven’t studied fractals. uuuf >___<’
*Definitely not getting over Mandelbrot’s loss*
Benoît B. Mandelbrot died during October in Cambridge, Mass at 85. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Aliette, said.
Dr. Mandelbrot defended mathematical objects that he said others had dismissed as “monstrous” and “pathological.” Using fractal geometry, he argued, the complex outlines of clouds and coastlines, once considered unmeasurable, could now “be approached in rigorous and vigorous quantitative fashion.”
“If you take the beginning and the end, I have had a conventional career,” he said, referring to his prestigious appointments in Paris and at Yale. “But it was not a straight line between the beginning and the end. It was a very crooked line.”
