Scientists and mathematicians #2…

Benoit Mandelbrot (11/20/1924—10/14/2010) popularized the description and construction of 2D and 3D sets of fractional (non-integer) dimension. He called them fractals. I won’t use the word “invent” because such sets were studied as far back as the 1800s. Of course, to say fractional (or “fractal” or non-integer) dimension, one has to redefine dimension a wee bit—Haussdorf, a 19th century mathematician did that. (The famous Cantor set, always a subset of the real numbers between zero and one,...