Chapters Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was…

— Ron Eglash

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within…

— Ron Eglash

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

— Ron Eglash

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

— Louis L'Amour

“Fractals, therefore, are also taken as a type of art, denoting the nature of the world around us, as well as the infinity and…

— Tim Clearbrook

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

— James Gleick

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal…

— Ron Eglash

“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each part appears…

— Joseph P. Kauffman