Scientists take a crack at recreating the hypnotic fractal spirals of the Romanesco cauliflower. Credit...Evan Sung for The New York Times Supported by By Sabrina Imbler Monks once hoped to turn lead ...

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 ...

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This page describes an introductory course on chaos and fractals. Topics include: What is a chaotic system? What makes a system chaotic? Fractals; drawing fractals, fractal dimension. Strange ...

A simple game with a die, a triangle, and a hell of a lot of patience, can help you to draw a famous fractal. Get out a pencil and clear your schedule. (Or get out a computer and clear less of your ...

Overview : dynamics of simple maps / Robert L. Devaney -- Nonlinear oscillations and the Smale horseshoe map / Philip J. Holmes -- Fractal basin boundaries and chaotic attractors / Kathleen T.

Iansiti, Marco, Q Hu, R M Westervelt, and M Tinkham. "Noise and Chaos in a Fractal Basin Boundary Regime of a Josephson Junction." Physical Review Letters 55, no. 7 (August 1985): 746–49.

Fractals are geometric objects that are self-similar, i.e., you can break them apart into smaller pieces which are exact (but smaller) replicas of the original object. These smaller pieces in turn, ...