Scientists take a crack at recreating the hypnotic fractal spirals of the Romanesco cauliflower. Credit...Evan Sung for The New York Times Supported by By Sabrina Imbler Monks once hoped to turn lead ...

The world may seem orderly, but randomness and chaos shape everything in the universe, from enormous galaxies all the way down to subatomic particles. Take a chilly window sheeting over with ice: even ...

This page describes an introductory course on chaos and fractals. Topics include: What is a chaotic system? What makes a system chaotic? Fractals; drawing fractals, fractal dimension. Strange ...

The artist has been working with the new concepts of chaos theory and fractal geometry as a conceptual transformation--a new way to view nature, space and form--and as a liberation from the confines ...

The real joy of conferences is meeting with people who understand so much more than you do. Eric Akkerman presented ideas at the Physics of Quantum Electronics conference that definitely falls into ...

Monks once hoped to turn lead into gold through alchemy. But consider the cauliflower instead. It takes just two genes to transform the ordinary stems, stalks and flowers of the weedy, tasteless ...

Iansiti, Marco, Q Hu, R M Westervelt, and M Tinkham. "Noise and Chaos in a Fractal Basin Boundary Regime of a Josephson Junction." Physical Review Letters 55, no. 7 (August 1985): 746–49.

A simple game with a die, a triangle, and a hell of a lot of patience, can help you to draw a famous fractal. Get out a pencil and clear your schedule. (Or get out a computer and clear less of your ...

Lectures: Monday and Friday, 8:45-10:00 a.m., SS 2127. Office hours: To be announced (check the course web page), but will probably be right after classes and also a few hours on friday afternoon (and ...