The line snakes around the lobby of the Cooper Union Great Hall in lower Manhattan in a complex, seemingly random way. It is at least an hour before the doors will open, but the chaotic assemblage ...

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 tell you ...

Benoit Mandelbrot , one of the world's most celebrated mathematicians, believes that our understanding of the stock market is as flawed as medieval astronomy. But the 77-year-old mathematician thinks ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, who died last week at 85, was to math what Carl Sagan was to astrophysics. He wasn’t just a researcher; he popularized scientific thought. And he’s best known for bringing fractal ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, whose unorthodox visions have helped reshape modern science, sat in an office at Johns Hopkins University this week and poked his finger at a picture of what looked like a cave of ...

When Benoit Mandelbrot first discovered he had a gift for mathematics, he says it was like “a curtain opening.” He would go on to become the father of fractals, the hidden patterns of nature that have ...