According to the Nova documentary, Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension, fractal geometry was considered so far “out of the realm” of normal math that it encountered heavy resistance in the scientific community when first introduced. Georg Cantor’s work on infinity produced a repeating pattern that mathematically continued basically, forever. This was labeled as a “monster,” and Cantor was severely criticized by his colleagues. Hegel van Koch’s early work with fractals produced the Koch snowflake, which colleagues labeled a “pathological curve.”
A Mathematician Who Saw Art
Benoit Mandlebrot, (1924-2010) a brilliant mathematician who did not fit well in academia, emigrated to the United States in 1958 to work for IBM, which was seeking creative thinkers to develop computer technology. “IBM had cornered the market on a certain type of oddball,” Mandlebrot explained. While analyzing interference patterns on computer data, Mandlebrot noticed the patterns were the same whether he looked at data from one minute, one hour, or one day.
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