La geometría fractal de la naturaleza
Muchas formas de la naturaleza son tan irregulares y fragmentadas que representarlas constituye un desafío matemático de primer orden. Los fractales, nventados por este gran matemático, permiten así describir muchas de las formas irregulares y fragmentadas que nos rodean, desde las nubes a los accidentes geográficos. Muchos de estos fractales presentan formas tan disparatadas que ni las ciencias ni las artes cuentan con términos para describirlos.
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons
La geometría fractal de la naturaleza
Muchas formas de la naturaleza son tan irregulares y fragmentadas que representarlas constituye un desafío matemático de primer orden. Los fractales, nventados por este gran matemático, permiten así describir muchas de las formas irregulares y fragmentadas que nos rodean, desde las nubes a los accidentes geográficos. Muchos de estos fractales presentan formas tan disparatadas que ni las ciencias ni las artes cuentan con términos para describirlos.
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons
