Mandelbrot
music:
avant metal, free improv project
line
up: anonymous trio, including guitar,
bass and drums
videoart:
by Yury Elik
members
of the project performed with: Peter Broetzmann, Patti
Smith, David Murray, Shelley Hirsch, Raymond Boni, Yanka
Djagileva, Egor Letov, Sergej Letov, Nik Rock'n'Roll, Gary
Lucas, Henry Kaiser, Soren Runolf, Dror Feiler, Daniel
Carter, Borah Bergman, Lukas Ligeti, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair,
Damon Smith, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Charles Gayle,
Tim Hodgkinson, Jacques Di Donato, Õavier Charles, Didier
Lasserre, Christian Brazier…
"New
and the most extreme trio made a remarkable debut on
APosition Music Forum 2005 while sharing the stage with Pauline
Oliveros and Terry Riley".
“Derek
Bailey meets Darkthrone”
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project
named after greatest scientist oa today Benoit
Mandelbrot
Benoit
Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present
interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals
can occur in many different places in both mathematics
and elsewhere in nature.
Mandelbrot
was born in Poland in 1924 into a family with a very academic
tradition. His father, however, made his living buying
and selling clothes while his mother was a doctor. As a
young boy, Mandelbrot was introduced to mathematics by
his two uncles.
Mandelbrot's
family emigrated to France in 1936 and his uncle Szolem
Mandelbrojt, who was Professor of Mathematics at the College
de France and the successor of Hadamard in this post, took
responsibility for his education. In fact the influence
of Szolem Mandelbrojt was both positive and negative since
he was a great admirer of Hardy and Hardy's philosophy
of mathematics. This brought a reaction from Mandelbrot
against pure mathematics, although as Mandelbrot himself
says, he now understands how Hardy's deep felt pacifism
made him fear that applied mathematics, in the wrong hands,
might be used for evil in time of war.
In
1945 Mandelbrot's uncle had introduced him to Julia's important
1918 paper claiming that it was a masterpiece and a potential
source of interesting problems, but Mandelbrot did not
like it. Indeed he reacted rather badly against suggestions
posed by his uncle sice he felt that his whole attitude
to mathematics was so different from that of his uncle.
Instead Mandelbrot chose his own very different course
which, however, brought him back to Julia's paper in the
1970s after a path through many different sciences which
some characterise as highly individualistic or nomadic.
In fact the decision by Mandelbrot to make contributions
to many different branches of science was a very deliberate
one taken at a young age. It is remarkable how he was able
to fulfil this ambition with such remarkable success in
so many areas.
His
work was first put elaborated in his book Les objets fractals,
forn, hasard et dimension (1975) and more fully in The
fractal geometry of nature in 1982.
On
23 June 1999 Mandelbrot received the Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Science from the University of St Andrews.
As
well as IBM Fellow at the Watson Research Center Mandelbrot
was Professor of the Practice of Mathematics at Harvard
University. He also held appointments as Professor of Engineering
at Yale, of Professor of Mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique,
of Professor of Economics at Harvard, and of Professor
of Physiology at the Einstein College of Medicine. Mandelbrot's
excursions into so many different branches of science was,
as we mention above, no accident but a very deliberate
decision on his part.
Mandelbrot
has received numerous honours and prizes in recognition
of his remarkable achievements. For example, in 1985 Mandelbrot
was awarded the Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to
Science. The following year he received the Franklin Medal.
In 1987 he was honoured with the Alexander von Humboldt
Prize, receiving the Steinmetz Medal in 1988 and many more
awards including the Legion d'Honneur in 1989, the Nevada
Medal in 1991, the Wolf prize for physics in 1993 and the
2003 Japan Prize for Science and Technology.
from
the article by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson |