A few years ago, [Chiaki] began work on the Pyxis2010 (translation), an FPGA-based Mandelbrot set generator able to dynamically zoom and pan around the world’s most popular fractal.

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From Mandelbrot’s own perspective, fractals have made their largest impact in the areas of pure mathematics and finance. “Both are not part of nature,” Mandelbrot says.

Design A Fractal The image of the Mandelbrot set is one of the most recognizable representations of a fractal. But what's behind the entrancing picture?

So writes acclaimed mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in his path-breaking book The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Instead, such natural forms, and many man-made creations as well, are "rough," he says.

Mandelbrot, who always had a highly visual and experimental approach to mathematics, was very unhappy in France in the 1950s. He complained that he “loathed and feared” Bourbaki.

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass ...