Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1924, the improbably named Benoît B Mandelbröt – the ”B” stands for a non-existent middle name – would be so important to the story of fractal geometry that he pretty ...

Well, each of these images represents a graph of the complex number plane, and between any two numbers on the plane exists an infinite number of numbers. So a Mandelbrot set, by definition ...

The Mandelbrot set is — when visualized with some colors — an interesting shape with infinite detail. While the patterns are immediately obvious to the human eye, anyone who’s run one can ...