Understanding how the human brain produces complex thought is daunting given its ... Zoomed in detail of the Mandelbrot set, a famous fractal, at different spatial scales of 1x, 4x ...

From the self-similar stalks on a head of broccoli, to the ever-smaller branching of blood vessels in the human body, fractals are everywhere in nature. And thanks to Mandelbrot , they're ...

The term dates back to 1975, when Mandelbrot — to whom it is credited — applied the mathematics of theoretical fractional dimensions to the geometric patterning found in the natural world. Fractals ...

This is how I imagine a trip into the brain of Hunter S. Thompson after eating a slice of Benoît Mandelbrot’s brain, sautéed with a bit of pepper, olive oil, and mescal shaves.

The biological nature of human thought is one of the brain's greatest secrets, especially as our thinking climbs into higher levels of abstraction, but according to a newly published study, we ...

On 14 October 2010, the genius who coined the word - Polish-born mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot - died, aged 85, from cancer. Unfortunately, there is no definition of fractals that is both simple ...

Pop music in the 1980s was full of weirdness, but no amount of Madonna or “The Safety Dance” will prepare you for what scientists recently found in a Michael McDonald song—fractals ...

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 ...

Benoit Mandelbrot’s Google Doodle. Google. 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 ...