Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term ‘fractal geometry’ in 1975. Today’s Google doodle creatively brings his theory to life.

Mandelbrot thought these speckles were islands, unconnected to some of the larger patterns around them and (erroneously, as it turned out). (These disconnected dots were very important to him.

Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word fractal in 1975 to describe the revolutionary approach to geometrical mathematics that he pioneered.

Benoit Mandelbrot, who died on Thursday at an integral approximation of 85, gave us new shapes.

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Benoit Mandelbrot, a Polish mathematician and the namesake of the Mandelbrot set. Born on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw, Poland ...

The branch-like structures in your lungs called Bronchi, for instance, fork out in irregular patterns that eerily mirror the way rivers bifurcate into smaller streams.