When Mandelbrot first began the work that led to the birth of fractal geometry, there was “an explosion of interest” from his colleagues he told us during his Big Think interview: “Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could … from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but by then mathematicians had become very abstract.” By contrast, the complex mathematical shapes called fract
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