A gallery of images spawned by the theories of the innovative mathematician, who died Oct. 14 at the age of 85. Icon The Mandelbrot set, which is most commonly represented by the above ...

The Mandelbrot set is — when visualized with some colors — an interesting shape with infinite detail. While the patterns are immediately obvious to the human eye, anyone who’s run… ...

Mr Mandelbrot's son, Dr Didier Mandelbrot, says his father, driven by curiosity to look for connections wherever he could find them, was the chief architect of the world's understanding of ...