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Researchers have now provided a mathematical formula to describe the processes that dictate how cauliflower-like patterns – a type of fractal pattern – form and develop. The laws that govern ...

Many patterns of nature are so irregular and ... plants and the landscape to church windows and laboratories … Fractal mathematics not only allows us to begin modelling the shapes of nature ...

Multifractals and the Market An extensive mathematical basis already exists for fractals and multifractals. Fractal patterns appear not just in the price changes of securities but in the ...

Studying fractal patterns in ecotones – the boundaries between different types of vegetation – could show us how plants are ...

And it turns out, we do the same thing with fractals. We see patterns and meaning in these mathematical objects. And a number have even been named after what they resemble. For example ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large ...