Definition:Fractal/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Fractal
The term fractal was coined by Benoît B. Mandelbrot in $1975$.
This arises from such objects having a fractional dimension.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): fractal
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): fractal