Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the Yale professor who gave the world mathematical tools to describe such complex phenomena as clouds and the patterns of leaves on trees, died last week at the age of 85. The ...

As Matt Blum of Wired.com's GeekDad reported eloquently this weekend, Yale mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot passed away on Friday at the age of 85. As evidenced by that story's headline ("He Gave Us ...

MATHEMATICS is a curious subject. Though often classed as one, it is not really a science. That scientists use it to describe their interpretation of reality is not quite the same thing. Nor, though, ...

When it comes to the study of both human nature and the natural world, one must be willing to reckon with the fact that a certain degree of chaos will be present in whatever facets of this planet they ...

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot died last week at the age of 85. He is most well known as the father of fractal geometry, which deals with irregularly shaped objects, the likes of which are often ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Benoit Mandelbrot, a Polish mathematician and the namesake of the Mandelbrot set. Born on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw, Poland, Benoit ...

Mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractal geometry, died Oct. 14. As mathematicians go, Mandelbrot was very likely the best of the last half-century. And that brilliance extended to ...

The mathematician Stephen Wolfram made a bold pronouncement last summer: The universe, in all of its infinite complexity, is the result of less than a handful of computational rules. That is, you ...