Important Discoveries in Mathematics
Words: 831 Pages: 3 5101Since the word fractal was popularized by Benoit Mandelbrot in the 1970’s, he has become the father of fractals. Mandelbrot had been fascinated by discoveries of mathematicians from the early 19th century who were attempting to define their understanding of what a curve is. Experiments like George Cantor's discovery that a single line could be divided infinitely, and Koch's triangle, a shape that has an infinite perimeter but finite area, resulted in the term ‘monsters’. These monsters were beyond the […]