So writes acclaimed mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in his path-breaking book The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Instead, such natural forms, and many man-made creations as well, are "rough," he says.

In 1982, a renegade mathematician by the name of Benoit Mandelbrot published a book entitled “The Fractal Geometry of Nature”. It was a revision of his previous work, “Fractals ...

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

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LOREN CARPENTER: In 1978, I ran into this book in a bookstore: Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension, by Benoit Mandelbrot, and it has to do with the fractal geometry of nature. So I bought the ...

With the books “Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension” (1977) and “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” (1982), he became the math world’s equivalent of a rock star — the Carl Sagan of the ...

Fractal geometry can also provide a way to understand ... Mandelbrot turned again to the mathematics of the financial market, warning in his book The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets against the huge ...

The geometry of remembering is Euclidean; that of amnesia is a fractal geometry sieged by infinites ... a theme the Cuban-born writer Antonio Benitez-Rojo treats in a forthcoming book on Caribbean ...