Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, known as the "father of fractal geometry," is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been his 96th birthday.

Mandelbrot tried using fractal mathematics to describe the market - in terms of profits and losses traders made over time, and found it worked well. In 2005, ...

Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word “fractal” in 1975 to describe the revolutionary approach to geometrical mathematics that he pioneered. From the time of the ancient Greeks, ...

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 of irregular ...

Mandelbrot's first foray into fractal economics, when he was discovering ways to use computers to predict fractal systems at IBM in the '60s, had major impact on the field.

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term ‘fractal geometry’ in 1975. Today’s Google doodle creatively brings his theory to life.

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The Mandelbrot set, seen here in an image generated by NOVA, epitomizes the fractal. For more on the set, see The Most Famous Fractal and A Sense of Scale, which takes the above image and zooms ...

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass ...