It is no exaggeration to say that Mandelbrot is one of the greatest masterminds of our era. Thanks to his work, visual images ...

Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves at different sizes, creating complex structures from simple rules. They are ...

I hate math. Or rather, doing math is what I hate. I hate doing it because I’m not good at it and I don’t like not being good ...

Marcus du Sautoy describes how fractal geometry can be used to describe natural objects, and how it is used in digital animation. Trees use the simple rule of trying to maximise surface area ...

Demin, S A Andreev, A O Demina, N Y and Nefedyev, Y A 2018. Analysis of the terrestrial global digital model using fractal geometry and harmonic expansion into spherical functions. Journal of Physics: ...

A fractal – the term he derived from the Latin word fractus, meaning“broken” or“fragmented” – is a geometric shape that can ...