Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word “fractal” to describe his new object and those like it. He argued that the edge of the set was more than a line (one dimension) and less than a plane (two dimensions). He claimed it had a dimension somewhere between the two, a fractional dimension.…
Maybe it is time to create a Declaration of Interdependence to acknowledge that no one does it alone. For each of us to be where we are, there have been countless people and events who have come before. It is easy to lose sight of this in a culture that…
The black pixels of the Mandelbrot set are all connected, similar to the network of nerves or blood vessels in the human body. One can zoom in to no end, and still the black pixels are connected. Watch this one-minute video to get an appreciation for what this means . . . This…
