fractals

In 1919, the German mathematician Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942) greatly enriched the concept of spatial dimension. Hausdorff said that it was very unsophisticated, and even incorrect, to say that an object has dimension one if it […]

A fractal is, so to speak, an anomalous set for our senses, although this anomaly has to do with the way our senses perceive space; the strangeness of a fractal is therefore sensory and not […]