Oliver Wendell Holmes famously once wrote, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." My mind, and assuredly those of countless others, never did after ...

Fractals, self-replicating patterns seen at varying scales, are a fascinating phenomena found widely in nature, from snowflakes to ferns and coastlines. But did you know that fractals can also be used ...

As a mathematical concept, the fractal can be intimidating. Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born mathematician who coined the term, defined a fractal as “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This week, Business Insider has been running a series of math tricks, statistical rules and trading patterns that have investors split in two: ...

And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. —Jonathan Swift, from "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" The satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels might have been talking about ...

Here’s a fun project that my friend Upasana and I put together some weekends ago. It’s a visual exploration of fractals through dance, a piece of generative art that’s part performance and part ...

Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you’ve already heard of fractals, you’ve probably seen the picture above. It’s called the Mandelbrot ...

Two years ago, research professor Paul Bourke began searching Google’s powerful mapping program for images to add to his embryonic Google Earth Fractals web page. "I was looking for some examples ...

The real joy of conferences is meeting with people who understand so much more than you do. Eric Akkerman presented ideas at the Physics of Quantum Electronics conference that definitely falls into ...

Topological insulators for light have been created using fractal patterns instead of conventional lattice structures. The fractal photonic topological insulators (PTIs) were made by an international ...