Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

Mandelbrot’s 1982 book titled “ The Fractal Geometry of Nature ” argued that irregular mathematical objects (fractals) were a reflection of nature.

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term ‘fractal geometry’ in 1975. Today’s Google doodle creatively brings his theory to life.

All told, since Mandelbrot introduced fractal geometry to the world in the 1970s, his new math has informed fields as diverse as biology and physics, ecology and engineering, medicine and cosmology.

Fractal geometry offers a rigorous framework for describing irregular and self-similar structures that are ubiquitous across nature and technology. This field has profoundly influenced our ...

Exploring fractal basics Fractals are intricate geometric structures created when patterns (or pieced of patterns) are altered and duplicated at ever-diminishing scales. Even simple shapes can quic… ...

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, here accepting the Japan Prize in 2003, was a professor at Yale University. Mandelbrot, who died Oct. 14 at age 85, created fractals as a way to describe shapes ...

Their models showed a correlation between the fractal geometry shaping a shell’s internal walls, and its structural stability against “buckling” forces. They theorize that ammonoids evolved this shape ...