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, ...

Image Credit: Created by Wolfgang Beyer with the program Ultra Fractal 3, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0) It’s called the Mandelbrot ... infinite intricacy, zoom symmetry, complexity ...

By plotting lots of different values of c on the plane, you derive the fractals. This idea of visualisation from Mandelbrot ... But once you zoom in, you can see lots of small irregularities ...

Washington - Benoit Mandelbrot, a French-American mathematician who explored a new class of mathematical shapes known as fractals, has died at the age ... Every time you zoom in further, you find the ...

GIF of the FractalFactory in action: This program visualizes Mandelbrot Fractal Orbits and Julia Set Fractals for ... view and also detailed view (If concurrency not fast enough) Add zoom feature or ...

Fractals are frustratingly hard to define, but they can be simple enough to intuit: They are patterns that repeat no matter how far in or out you zoom. Mandelbrot didn't invent the concept of ...

Mandelbrot coined “fractal geometry” in 1975 in order to describe the mathematical phenomena he had encountered.

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.

Drawn from the irregular shapes and processes found in nature, his research benefited a wide array of fields, from art to physics and finance. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News.