One of the first studies of fractals came from a surprising and weird phenomenon that occurs when you try to measure a coastline.

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes famously once wrote, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." My mind, and assuredly those of countless others, never did after ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/mathhorizons.24.3.8 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/mathhorizons.24.3.8 Math Horizons is intended primarily for undergraduates interested ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, known as the "father of fractal geometry," is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been his 96th birthday.