Though people had long noticed these special patterns by which the natural world organizes itself, the term fractal was coined about 50 years ago by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot ...

The Mandelbrot set is — when visualized with some colors — an interesting shape with infinite detail. While the patterns are immediately obvious to the human eye, anyone who’s run one can ...

Mandelbrot didn't invent the concept of fractals—mathematicians had been studying self-similar patterns for ages—but he did ...

They all exhibit a type of movement pattern called Lévy walk ... a statistical model of heavy-tailed probability distributions that was later applied by Mandelbrot to describe random movements with ...

We want visitors to experience firsthand how those patterns build the natural world around us." However, it was not until 1982 that mathematician Beno?(R)t Mandelbrot published The Fractal ...