“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”. Flattering interesting new Benoit Mandelbrot was a brilliant French-American mathematician who coined the term “fractal” in the late 1960s. His pioneering work on fractal geometry led to a theory of fractals and their application to many fields, including computer graphics, finance, and the study of turbulence. His most famous contribution to mathematics is the Mandelbrot set, a set of complex numbers that exhibit an infinitely repeating fractal pattern when iterated through a simple mathematical formula. The Mandelbrot set has become one of the most recognizable images in all of mathematics, and Mandelbrot’s work has had a profound impact on many fields of study, including physics, biology, and economics. If you’re interested in learning more about Benoit Mandlebrot then I suggest you watch the documentary ‘Clouds are not Spheres’ it’s an incredible insight into the Mandlebrot set…