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

If fractals are everywhere, Mandelbrot guessed, then perhaps the entire universe is a fractal. Maybe what we saw as the pattern in the arrangement of galaxies was the beginning steps of the ...

Mandelbrot thought these speckles were islands, unconnected to some of the larger patterns around them and (erroneously, as it turned out). (These disconnected dots were very important to him.

During the 1980s, people became familiar with fractals through those weird, colourful patterns made by computers. ... Polish-born mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot - died, ...

Benoit Mandelbrot: Who was the mathematician and why is Google celebrating him? His algorithm discovered the infinitely repeating patterns in nature found in snowflakes ...

Benoit Mandelbrot , one of the world's most celebrated mathematicians, ... Trees, clouds, numerous patterns that we see in daily life--all turned out to be fractal in nature, ...

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.

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.

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass ...

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the Yale professor who gave the world mathematical tools to describe such complex phenomena as clouds and the patterns of leaves on trees, died last week at the age of 85. The ...