They're self-similar. Natural selection, as Mandelbrot pointed out in his classic 1982 book The Fractal Geometry of Nature, has favored fractal self-similarity over and over throughout ...

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 ...

Then, in 1975, Mandelbrot coined the term "fractal geometry" to describe these mathematical phenomena, and in 1982, his work was shared with the world with the release of his book The Fractal ...

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