Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1924, the improbably named Benoît B Mandelbröt – the ”B” stands for a non-existent middle name – would be so important to the story of fractal geometry that he pretty ...

Peter Tyson Note: NOVA Online's Rachel VanCott used the program Ultra Fractal 5 to generate these images of the Mandelbrot set. The black, flea-like shape you see here is the classic Mandelbrot ...