If you're an ecologist, you're interested in populations, and one of the best ways to understand something is to model it mathematically. So let's say you want to represent population growth or ...

Fractals are a paradox. Amazingly simple, yet infinitely complex. New, but older than dirt. What are fractals? Where did they come from? Why should I care? Unconventional 20th-century mathematician ...

And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. —Jonathan Swift, from "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" The satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels might have been talking about ...

There is something we find beautiful about fractals, those curious geometric structures with repeating shapes that seem to go on for infinity (see video below). Perhaps it is because these ...

This intricate object is a Mandelbulb. No, not a piece of hyperbolic crochet but possibly the most accurate three-dimensional representation yet of the famous fractal Mandelbrot set. From fern leaves ...

Q: The French-American mathematician _____ _____ coined the word ‘fractal’ to denote shapes whose geometric features repeat themselves at some smaller scale. Fill in the blank. A: Benoit Mandelbrot Q: ...

If you're an ecologist, you're interested in populations, and one of the best ways to understand something is to model it mathematically. So let's say you want to represent population growth or ...