ibmblr:
“A friend and colleague on Mandelbrot:
““Of course he used his office computer for email, but he did very little programming… The walls of his office were covered with posters of Mandelbrot Sets and fractal art. He had piles of books and...

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A friend and colleague on Mandelbrot:

“Of course he used his office computer for email, but he did very little programming… The walls of his office were covered with posters of Mandelbrot Sets and fractal art. He had piles of books and papers on the floor, on his desk, and on various tables. But his memory was great. If asked him about any aspect of fractals, he could go to the correct pile and retrieve a relevant document.”

As told by IBM Researcher Dr. James Wynne in a Reddit AMA:

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We worked with fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot at IBM and Yale Univ. AMA

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