(PhysOrg.com) -- What do mountains, broccoli and the stock market have in common? The answer to that question may best be explained by fractals, the branch of geometry that explains irregular shapes ...

Fractals are patterns that are self-similar on different scales, and they can occur quite naturally. "Take for example a piece of paper crumpled into a ball. If you look at the folds of the paper when ...

You may not know what fractals are, mathematically speaking, but you know what they look like: tangled, crenelated forms bending and burbling in on themselves into infinity in a geometric, yet weirdly ...

Even the smallest taste of a fractal is guaranteed to blow one’s mind, wrapping up psychedelic satisfaction and hardcore mathematics in a bite-sized (er, infinite-sized?) package. Tom Beddard, a laser ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This week, Business Insider has been running a series of math tricks, statistical rules and trading patterns that have investors split in two: ...

Fractal geometry is one of the most elegant and beautiful branches of mathematics. An early analysis of fractals came from a surprising and weird phenomenon that occurs when you try to measure a ...