Drawn from the irregular shapes and processes found in nature, his research benefited a wide array of fields, from art to physics and finance. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do mountains, broccoli and the stock market have in common? The answer to that question may best be explained by fractals, the branch of geometry that explains irregular shapes ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, best known for his theories on fractal geometry, passed away on October 14. His best known theory, the Mandelbrot set, describes numbers where each successive value is a ...