Fred Mitchell (mathematics)

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Fred Mitchell, creator of the Gravity Set, was born in Philadelphia in November of 1961. He attended a number of schools in his youth there, including E. Washington Rhodes during his 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. He was later relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, where he attended Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills from 1976-1979.

Fred was very interested in mathematics and science from a very young age, and basically educated himself in high-school and college-level mathematics, including calculus by the age of 13. Unfortuately, Vestavia Hills High School failed to recognize this, refusing to enroll him in calculus in his freshman year as he requested. However, this did not stop his progress. Fred Mitchell was also very interested in astronomy and physics, and had a deep fascination for Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Fred was the only student in Vestavia Hills that also did contract computer programming as an after-school job at the time. This marked the beginning of Fred's computer career, which progressed without formal education to this day.

While employed for Commodore International working as a software engineer for the Amiga, he and colleague Chris Green created the Gravity Set. Fred did the bulk of the research on the Gravity Set and wrote several programs on different platforms to generate it.

Fred Mitchell was awarded a patent for inventing a hierarchial network  graphical user interface, an interactive interface based on fractals that allows one to easily explore hierarchial networks to any arbitrary depth.

Currently, Fred Mitchell is working on a new mathematical system to describe networks of arbitrary complexity and structure. He has also taken a keen interest in molecular biology in his hopes to understand the mechanism of life and death in deeper detail. He currently resides in Nashua, New Hampshire with his family.