Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He ...

As Matt Blum of Wired.com's GeekDad reported eloquently this weekend, Yale mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot passed away on Friday at the age of 85. As evidenced by that story's headline ("He Gave Us ...

MATHEMATICS is a curious subject. Though often classed as one, it is not really a science. That scientists use it to describe their interpretation of reality is not quite the same thing. Nor, though, ...

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot died last week at the age of 85. He is most well known as the father of fractal geometry, which deals with irregularly shaped objects, the likes of which are often ...

When it comes to the study of both human nature and the natural world, one must be willing to reckon with the fact that a certain degree of chaos will be present in whatever facets of this planet they ...

The mathematician Stephen Wolfram made a bold pronouncement last summer: The universe, in all of its infinite complexity, is the result of less than a handful of computational rules. That is, you ...

What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common? Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that was compelling in ...

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, Benoit ...