The solutions proposed by fractal mathematics have led various branches of human endeavor to incorporate them into their workings. People have begun to see the world in fractals, non-integer ...

Unless tea leaves or crystal balls are involved, predicting the future is typically a matter of finding patterns in the past. While there are many approaches today to pattern recognition and matching, ...

For birds, fractals are a turn on. A new study found that the complexity of fractal patterns on a bird's chest communicates the animal's fitness to potential mates. Scientists studied male and female ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, has been awarded the very prestigious Japan Prize by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. The ...