Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Many people know Beno?t Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquet Father of Fractals. Less appreciated, though, is the process underlying his work: Mandelbrot relied as much for guidance on visual imagery as whiteboard formulae. Primitive computer printouts were his maps to uncharted mathematical terrain, their dot-matrix patterns a "here be dragons" for the explorations of dynamical systems and chaos theory.



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