LOS ANGELES — What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common? Mathematician Ben oit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, known as the "father of fractal geometry," is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been his 96th birthday.

Though now extinct, ammonoids (a group of marine mollusks with shells) evolved for 350 million years, always with a tendency toward increasingly elaborate shell structures. Scientists have studied ...

French-American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has died of cancer at the age of 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mandelbrot was most famously known for his work in exploring the mathematical shapes ...

The mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot is best known for his work in the field of fractal geometry. He told me that when he was seeking a word to describe his geometry, thumbing through his son's Latin ...

Fractal geometry investigates complex shapes that exhibit self-similarity across multiple scales, while spectral analysis focuses on the study of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of operators, most ...

LOS ANGELES — What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common? Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that was ...