Mandelbrot: The universe in patterns
By Leonard Rosen | November 6, 2010 | Boston Globe
“…What’s a fractal? Take a cauliflower, pull away a large floret, and you’ll find that the part looks like the whole; tease that floret into successively smaller ones, and you’ll see the whole reproduced in each of the parts. Mandelbrot was the mathematician of shapes in nature, especially the crooked line. He once wrote that “Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth.’’…”
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