For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal: if it looks the same no matter the scale. And the answer is: no, not really. But in some ways, yes.

Benoit Mandelbrot was a maverick mathematician who is widely known as the “father of fractal geometry.” Mandelbrot coined the term in 1975 to describe a new branch of geometry that sought to make ...

In 1975, Benoit Mandelbrot published a math paper and created a new type of art: the fractal. Over the next fifty years, fractal art spread through popular culture. These complex images appear on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, ...