When it comes to the study of both human nature and the natural world, one must be willing to reckon with the fact that a certain degree of chaos will be present in whatever facets of this planet they ...

The image above, generated from a relatively simple mathematical formula, has become iconic and permanently connected with the man who identified it: mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. But its iconic ...

Benoit Mandelbrot was one of the most influential minds of the 20th century. His career spanned many disciplines, but he’s perhaps best known for his groundbreaking geometry work in defining fractals, ...

Randomness is all around you…or so you think. Consider the various shapes of the morning clouds, the jagged points of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, the twists and turns of England’s coastline and the ...

Perhaps it's because they create an infinity of interesting from simple equations. Perhaps it's because they suggest that many seemingly chaotic phenomena have an underlying order. Perhaps it's ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Benoit Mandelbrot, a Polish mathematician and the namesake of the Mandelbrot set. Born on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw, Poland, Benoit ...

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones … and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line,” wrote Benoît Mandelbrot, contradicting more than 2,000 years of misconceptions ...