Image: ESA / Springel et al., Virgo Consortium Benoit Mandelbrot popularized the concept of fractals in the mid-20th century. A fractal is a structure defined by a unique mathematical formula, ...

That’s fractals." And for both explanations ... who created a renaissance,” wrote Nathan Cohen in the 2015 book Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life In Many Dimensions. “Mandelbrot could 'see' answers ...

They were thanks to the maverick French-American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot ... you derive the fractals. This idea of visualisation from Mandelbrot, who would have turned 100 this month ...

Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010 ... computers at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in upstate New York. A fractal – the term he derived from the Latin word fractus, meaning“broken” or ...

They were thanks to the maverick French-American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who came up with them in an attempt to visualise this field – with help from some powerful computers at the IBM TJ ...

New, but older than dirt. What are fractals? Where did they come from? Why should I care? Unconventional 20th-century mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot created the term "fractal" from the Latin word ...

Washington - Benoit Mandelbrot, a French-American mathematician who explored a new class of mathematical shapes known as fractals, has died at the age of 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his family ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the subject of today’s semi ... Mandelbrot is credited with coining the phrase “fractal geometry” as a description of irregular and infinitely repeating mathematical ...

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.

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Google is celebrating mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot with a new Doodle on Friday, on what would have been his 96th birthday. Mandelbrot is known as the father of fractal geometry.