Their models showed a correlation between the fractal geometry shaping a shell’s internal walls, and its structural stability against “buckling” forces. They theorize that ammonoids evolved this shape ...

Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

With the books “Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension” (1977) and “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” (1982), he became the math world’s equivalent of a rock star — the Carl Sagan of the ...

Mandelbrot’s 1982 book titled “ The Fractal Geometry of Nature ” argued that irregular mathematical objects (fractals) were a reflection of nature.

The mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot is best known for his work in the field of fractal geometry. He told me that when he was seeking a word to describe his geometry, thumbing through his son's ...

With the books “Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension” (1977) and “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” (1982), he became the math world’s equivalent of a rock star — the Carl Sagan of the ...