Post date: 2-giu-2012 10.53.53
It was the late sixties when Benoit Mandelbrot published How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension.
It was like a sort of awakening, because he exlaimed "Hey guys! Natural objects is not composed of lines, circles, platonic solids and spheres! Nature outline complex shapes!".
His revolutionary message is spreading among scientific community, and after more than 40 years the waves hasn't yet exausted their effects. Why so long time to internaize this simple fact? I have some hyphoteses about transmission of culture, but instead of enumerating them it's simpler and effectual to cite the famous words of Albert Einstein: "It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom". Mind-changing is an hard activity for who live on the value of its own ideas.
I would like to give my tiny (and probably negligible) contribution to the diffusion of that waves whit this unrevised note about an approach for the measure of biological (complex) shapes.