recognize mathematical principles in art and apply them to an artistic endeavor. The term fractal was coined by French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975. He based the term on the Latin word ...

Fractal art, popular on the Internet, T-shirts and posters, became icons of post-modern math. Harvard mathematician David B. Mumford, speaking to the New York Times in 1985, said Mandelbrot’s ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, who died last week at 85, was to math what Carl Sagan was to astrophysics. He wasn’t just a researcher; he popularized scientific thought. And he’s best known for bringing ...

ASB GlassFloor makes a glass playing surface for sports arenas that can show animations, track athletes' performance, and repaint court lines with a tap. Pros in Europe are already playing on it ...

art and finance. Mandelbrot, 85, who died of cancer Oct. 14 in Cambridge, Mass., was the father of fractals, a term he coined in 1975 to describe a new branch of geometry that seeks to make sense ...

As a mathematical concept, the fractal can be intimidating ... has watched kids use Frax. “They clearly have no clue about ‘Mandelbrot’ or the math of it,” he says, and yet they have ...

Nor, though, is it an art ... describes a fractal. When you magnify it, it rushes away from you and becomes a simulacrum of its larger self, eventually infinitely long. Dr Mandelbrot asked ...