Jack's Originals

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June 12, 2023

Be A Success Maverick Volume 3: How Ordinary Pe...

Of course fractals and more generally mathematics are well represented announcing Mandelbrot's future careeras the inventor of fractals and their omnipresence in nature.So several names of mathematicians are mentioned: Kepler, Poincaré, Gaston Julia,...;and mathematical terms,not really mathematics, just some name dropping without explanation:Zeno's paradox, Fibonacci numbers, Hausdorff dimension, the volume of a sphere as a multiple integral,the golden section, and of course the Mandelbrot set;and there are the illustrations from The Book of Monsters:the Sierpinski triangle, Koch's snowflake curve, Peano's curve,....These are all very curious elements to embed in an imaginative novella, making it literally "extraordinary".The beginning and the end of this story is Mandelbrot finishing his memoirswhile his wife Aliette is serving him cauliflower for his eightieth birthday,his favourite dish in which he admires the fractal structure.