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How long is a country’s border? That’s the seemingly simple question mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson asked himself more than 75 years ago. The thing that puzzled him was that the length of the ...

The math, which combines chaos, quantum theory, and infinitely complex fractal structures, has been called a “foundational result.” ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the mathematics professor at Yale who coined the word "fractal," passed away on October 14 at the age of 85. His death recalls the complicated history of his life's work -- the ...

When Harry Potter first went to Hogwarts, he caught his train from Kings Cross, platform 9¾. The idea of a platform between two whole numbers might seem impossible to imagine. However, for someone ...

This week, Business Insider has been running a series of math tricks, statistical rules and trading patterns that have investors split in two: skeptics and fanatics. Today we continue with a concept ...