Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of phys
Mandelbrot at a TED conference in 2010
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Mandelbrot speaking about the Mandelbrot set, during his acceptance speech for the Légion d'honneur in 2006
A Mandelbrot set
Fractal
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In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals
Benoit Mandelbrot
…phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature. In 1936, at the age of 11…
Highly magnified area on the boundary of the Mandelbrot set
The Mandelbrot set: its boundary is a fractal curve with Hausdorff dimension 2. (Note that the colored sections of the image are not actually part of the Mandelbrot Set, but rather they are based on how quickly the function that produces it diverges.)
Mandelbrot set with 12 encirclements
2x 120 degrees recursive IFS