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Fractal Worlds

Michael Frame, adjunct professor of mathematics, and Amelia Urry (Yale University Press)

Michael Frame, adjunct professor of mathematics, and Amelia Urry, journalist and poet

(Yale University Press)

Fractal geometry is an area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a mountain range. In this primer, mathematician Michael Frame — a close collaborator with Benoit Mandelbrot, the founder of fractal geometry — and poet Amelia Urry explore the world of fractals as they appear in nature, art, medicine, and technology.

Frame and Urry offer new insights into topics such as measuring fractal complexity by dimension and the life and work of Mandelbrot. In addition, they delve into less-known areas, including fractals with memory, the Mandelbrot set in four dimensions, fractals in literature, and more.

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