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… ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, who died on October 14 aged 85, was largely responsible for developing the discipline of fractal geometry – the study of rough or fragmented geometric shapes or processes that ...

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 ...

His most famous creation is the “Mandelbrot set”, a mathematical creation of infinite complexity. The patterns created have brought mathematics into popular culture and fractals have become a ...