Fractal interpolation functions (FIFs) arise from the marriage of classical interpolation and fractal geometry, yielding curves that exactly pass through prescribed data points while exhibiting ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Even the smallest taste of a fractal is guaranteed to blow one’s mind, wrapping up psychedelic satisfaction and hardcore mathematics in a bite-sized (er, infinite-sized?) package. Tom Beddard, a laser ...

ONLY rarely does the dry theorising of mathematicians strike a chord with the public. Most people have heard of Einstein and his famous equation, E=mc 2, or of Isaac Newton and his apochryphal falling ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. You probably haven't thought of fractals since your high school geometry class, but there's a chance ...