Mathematics

Fascinating Fractal Applications

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Intuition

5 min readNov 6, 2021

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“Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.” — Benoît Mandelbrot

What is a Fractal?

Spencer Hooks

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