Math trivia: the "B."

[lcamtuf@infosec.exchange]

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[liebach@mastodon.art]

@lcamtuf I believe you.

[jimfl@hachyderm.io]

@lcamtuf Making it a fixed point orbit

[synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net]

@lcamtuf after 666 levels deep the innermost B stands for Bottom

[oleksandr@activitypub.natalenko.name]

@lcamtuf What does "B." stand for in "Robert B. Weide" then???

[seidcivic@mastodon.social]

@oleksandr @lcamtuf Bob B. Weide, of course.

[zedaardv@mastodon.world]

@oleksandr @lcamtuf Bob???

[perhaps391@mastodon.social]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116070275375330632

@lcamtuf Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[louisffourie@c.im]

@lcamtuf My favourite math joke

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@oleksandr @lcamtuf "Blevins."

[evoscale@c.im]

@lcamtuf I take issue with it never laying down on the job.

What's the worst?.. handle MandelBrat-wurst?..

[mdreid@mastodon.social]

@lcamtuf @cstross This is a common misconception. The “B.” here is really the set of all expansions for which Benoit B. Mandelbrot converges (e.g., when “B.” stands for “Gaston M. Julia”).

[risottobias@toot.risottobias.org]

@lcamtuf @catsalad [adds to my infinite set at the hilbert hotel]

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@lcamtuf

There is a book in the Library of Babel that confirms this!

[saua@troet.cafe]

@simonzerafa @lcamtuf there's another book in there with a very elegant counter proof that was too long to put into the margins of the first vook

[owiller@mastodon.sdf.org]

@lcamtuf No, it stands for Benoit B. Mandlebrot if you look closely.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@saua @lcamtuf

Ah but the Ship of Thesus just sailed past to disprove that argument!

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@lcamtuf Bonus trivia: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" is an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"

[demallien@mindly.social]

@lcamtuf it would be funnier if the B stood for Benoit B, not Benoit

[stringlapse@tech.lgbt]

@lcamtuf benoit b mandelbenoit b mandelbrotrot