But, as with many things in math, one of the earliest foundational studies of what would be later described as fractals came from a surprisingly difficult question: How long is the coastline of ...

M. D. Sanford, CHOICE 'I think that this attractive textbook would be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of just about anyone with an interest in fractals, chaos, or dynamical systems. It presents ...

What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in common? They all contain fractals: Nature’s exquisite, endlessly ...

you derive the fractals. This idea of visualisation from Mandelbrot, who would have turned 100 this month, led mathematicians to accept the role of pictures in experimental mathematics.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1924, the improbably named Benoît B Mandelbröt – the ”B” stands for a non-existent middle name – would be so important to the story of fractal geometry that he pretty ...

While the present volume includes pretty pictures, especially in the first chapter/paper, it emphasizes the mathematical beauty of fractals. The background expected of the reader varies from paper to ...

At the unveiling ceremony Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, pointed out that the fractal was so ahead of its time that ‘[the Sierpiński triangle] is only seeing its true ...