(Phys.org)—A team made up of members from several European countries has published a paper in Physical Review Letters describing a technique they've developed for using fractal geometry to build ...

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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 ...

Fractal geometry introduces a paradigm in which spacetime exhibits scale-dependent structure characterised by non-integer dimensions. In quantum cosmology, such structures arise naturally when ...

A mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The method, ...

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A new approach has given rise to the hope for a faster and more reliable method for determining cancer cell types. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and the ...

Benoit Mandelbrot was a maverick mathematician who is widely known as the “father of fractal geometry.” Mandelbrot coined the term in 1975 to describe a new branch of geometry that sought to make ...