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 ...

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.

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

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 ...