Fractals have become a common sight, thanks to computer imagery In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they ...

Not just any program, mind you; one that would generate a Mandelbrot fractal on a line printer ... [Ken] was able to develop his code and run it before committing it to punched cards.

Now Mandelbrot has brought the fractal toolbox back to the field of price variation, where he made vital contributions decades ago. In the 1960s, while working at IBM , Mandelbrot made a stab at ...

In Mandelbrot's view, another dimension exists between two and three dimensions. It's a fractal dimension, and the rougher something is, the higher its fractal dimension. This roughness ...

With the newly developed IBM computers at his disposal, Mandelbrot used computer code to create fractal images likened to psychedelic art with hints of nature and the human body. Euclidean ...

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.