Mandelbrot’s fractals are not just gorgeous – they taught mathematicians how to model the real world
It is no exaggeration to say that Mandelbrot is one of the greatest masterminds of our era. Thanks to his work, visual images of fractals have become symbolic for mathematical research as a whole. The ...
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Egg-shaped galaxies may be aligned to the black holes at their hearts, astronomers find
Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...