The Mandelbrot set is a fractal, meaning that its boundary is so complex that it cannot be wellapproximated by one-dimensional line segments, regardless of how closely one zooms in on it. In fact, the ...

Mandelbrot set is a really amazing mathematical fractal, it just iterates a quadratic equation on a complex plane. It's formula is: z_n+1 = z_n2 + c (n+1 is subscript of z and so is n^2 for the second ...

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 tell you ...

[Ken Shirriff] is apparently very cool, and when he found out the Computer History Museum had a working IBM 1401 mainframe, he decided to write a program. Not just any program, mind you; one that ...

A group of fractal image makers claim to have made the best three-dimensional portrayal to date of the Mandelbrot set, one of the best-known fractal equations. Yet the path there was not ...

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick is a charming glimpse into the marvelously complex mind of maverick mathematician (and physicist, and economist, and artist) Benoit Mandelbrot, the ...

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the Yale professor who gave the world mathematical tools to describe such complex phenomena as clouds and the patterns of leaves on trees, died last week at the age of 85. The ...