The quest by a group of math geeks to create a three-dimensional analogue for the mesmerizing Mandelbrot fractal has ended in success. If you were ever mesmerized by the Mandelbrot screen saver, the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Ah, the Mandelbrot set. This famous fractal ...

You might think that’s an alien spore, or a crystal of some kind. But it’s actually what appears to be a rendering of a three-dimensional fractal! However, fractals are generally calculated in two ...

Widely known as the "father of fractal geometry", the Polish-born French American Benoit Mandelbrot is the subject of Google's latest Doodle. While the mathematician, born 96 years ago in Warsaw, may ...

The world is not smooth, made of perfect spheres and unbroken lines. Its edges are tattered and torn, ragged yet recognizable. Last week the world lost the man whose mathematics helped to explain ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born mathematician who played a central role in Chaos theory, has died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 85, of cancer. He is most famous for his work on ...