anhinga_anhinga: (Default)
2010-10-16 07:53 pm

Benoît Mandelbrot

Andrew Gelman ([livejournal.com profile] columbia_stat) on Benoît Mandelbrot:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/10/mandelbrot_and.html

NNDB entry:

http://www.nndb.com/people/752/000022686/

Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007 (this is an entry from it I liked, but the site seems to hate hotlinking, so I am just including the link to it.)

Update: Read his A maverick's apprenticeship (8 pages PDF, 160K).
anhinga_anhinga: (Default)
2006-05-22 01:31 am

curvelets

I'll be writing tidbits I learned at the Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

One of them is curvelets, a strange version of "sharp-looking, angular" wavelets. Here is an example of a curvelet at the research page of Harry Hess.ExpandRead more... )