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.

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 ...

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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