When it comes to the study of both human nature and the natural world, one must be willing to reckon with the fact that a certain degree of chaos will be present in whatever facets of this planet they ...

Benoit Mandelbrot is one of the twentieth century's best known mathematicians. So why, in the twilight of an extraordinary academic career, is he still angry with many of his colleagues? Jim Giles ...

Widely known as the "father of fractal geometry", the Polish-born French American Benoit Mandelbrot is the subject of Google's latest Doodle. While the mathematician, born 96 years ago in Warsaw, may ...

Following the passing of Benoit Mandelbrot this week, Horace Campbell writes of the mathematician's groundbreaking academic work on fractals and the concept's historical centrality in African ...

Q: You've said, "My whole career is an ardent pursuit of the concept of roughness." What exactly do you mean by that? Benoit Mandelbrot: Actually, this word roughness has different meanings according ...

In a brilliant analysis in 1802, British chemist Luke Howard marshalled clouds to order (see Part One). Nearly a century and a half later, Benoit Mandelbrot was to tear them apart. It’s hard to decide ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benoît Mandelbrot, one of the most original and influential mathematicians of the 20th century, has died of ...

'Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” With these words pioneering man of ideas Benoît ...

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 ...