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October 2, 2015
in Art & Architecture, Art + Science

Art + Science: The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot

October 2, 2015
in Art & Architecture, Art + Science

This piece at the intersection of Art + Science is a post written by a former Yale University Press intern after she visited the 2012 exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center, The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking. The book that accompanied the exhibition shares its title,

November 2, 2012
in Humanities, Science, Technology

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot

November 2, 2012
in Humanities, Science, Technology

Follow @yaleARTbooks Maggie McLoughlin— At the entrance of The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking, an exhibition of the intricate graphic compositions of the mathematician most famous for his pioneering work in fractal geometry and chaos theory, reads the epigraph: I was struck…by the