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 be present in whatever facets of this planet they ...

Widely known as the "father of fractal geometry", the Polish-born French American Benoit Mandelbrot is the subject of Google's latest Doodle. While the mathematician, born 96 years ago in Warsaw, may ...

The image above, generated from a relatively simple mathematical formula, has become iconic and permanently connected with the man who identified it: mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. But its iconic ...

In a brilliant analysis in 1802, British chemist Luke Howard marshalled clouds to order (see Part One). Nearly a century and a half later, Benoit Mandelbrot was to tear them apart. It’s hard to decide ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, who died on October 14 aged 85, was largely responsible for developing the discipline of fractal geometry – the study of rough or fragmented geometric shapes or processes that have ...

At the start of The Fractalist is a photograph dated June 1930. In a Jewish family's apartment in Warsaw, four Polish mathematicians are hosting a meal for an honoured guest — French mathematician ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benoît Mandelbrot, one of the most original and influential mathematicians of the 20th century, has died of ...

'Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” With these words pioneering man of ideas Benoît ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Economics is a science of fashions – Keynes and ‘pump-priming’ at one time, Friedman and monetarism at another ...