I guess once the world realized that YOU of all people had read, approved, and were moved by Mandelbrot that it was inevitable his book would become “legendary....a milestone in science.”
A golden mind to go along with your golden system and golden ears.
Speaking of a book reading event in his own life does not means that the writer assume that it was himself that will create the legendary status of the book...
If you interpret my sentence otherwise it is because your intent is to insult me...
You are an idiot if you think so, and i am no more insulted thinking about that in the few instants necessary to write my answer here .... i feel only pity....
I own average ears, average system but very well controlled at low cost in his working dimensions, but compared to yourself probably i own a less average mind than your own....I prefer to not insult freely and without reason someone with whom i never had an interaction before...
Thanks for exposing your "magnificent" soul.....
And to say something positive here, i will add that i discovered the book only because i read an article of Mandelbrot about the modelization of errors on phone line in a book about epistemology few years before his publication of "fractal objects"... This book is a work of art and one of my favorite of all time.... His legendary status was inevitable and save in your insane mind has no relation with my reading....
The name of people who are able to invent a new Geometry are indeed very limited in the history of mankind... Mandelbrot is one of them....
Thanks for your post anyway, i loved the book so much, it is a new occasion to speak about it....
Thinking about it the book of Mandelbrot was for me like a book about number theory written by Lewis Carroll... There is very few PURE mathematical book in this century that reach in 2 or 3 years cult popular status reading level book sellers....Astounding book....Everyone reading this book has his mind changed forever....Think about that....And contrary to many pure mathematical books almost everyone can read it and understanding it....
I wish my post will make some curious about this eternal masterpiece of book....
It is a book about geometry, the way we see thing and place them in spatial dimensions and localize them... When we read it we discovered that we have never seen in the right perspective ANYTHING that we are contemplated before... Stupendous...
The book contain a mathematical description of holes in swiss cheese and stars in the sky, relating them with the same dimensional numbers...
Is it not astounding?
