Benoit Mandelbrot Coined ‘Fractal Geometry’ by Finding Natural Patterns in the World Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term 'fractal geometry' in 1975. Today's Google doodle ...

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.

Mandelbrot moved on to greener pastures, applying his new mathematical tools to a wide variety of fields. The Fractal Geometry of Nature , a 1982 book on the continual reappearance of fractals in ...

Mandelbrot realized that fractals have many concrete applications, such as in the movement of planets, Minsky said. Mandelbrot famously figured out how to measure the coastline of England, ... work ...

French-American mathematician Mandelbrot is known as the "father of fractal geometry," for having defined one of the most important patterns found in nature: fractals.

Mandelbrot came upon fractals in 1961 when he was studying fluctuations in the cotton ... the paintings show fractal patterns over a range of orders of magnitude consistent with other fractal ...

Earth’s most beautiful fractal patterns ... Computer science professor Paul Bourke has an exhaustive amount of information about fractals ... Did you have any idea you lived inside a Mandelbrot ...

Exploring fractal basics Fractals are intricate geometric structures created when patterns (or pieced of patterns) are altered and duplicated at ever-diminishing scales. Even simple shapes can quic… ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, whose work on fractals aided understanding of the complexity of patterns in nature, has died at the age of 85. BBC Homepage.