The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...

Fractals are a fascinating type of pattern for mathematics nerds, with their repeating, artificial-looking structures. Now, scientists have discovered the first known fractal protein – and it ...

They’re barely contained by strict mathematical definition, but the easy description is this: they’re “beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals." And for both ...

The math Newberry and his student Jingyi Gao used is based on fractals. These are patterns created by repeating the same smaller pattern within itself. Snowflakes are an example of this ...

Thanks to his work, visual images of fractals have become symbolic for mathematical research as a whole. The community recognised his contribution by naming one of the most famous fractals the ...

The basic idea of a fractal is that you can use a single mathematical formula to define a structure at all scales. In other words, you can zoom in and out of a fractal and it still maintains the ...