Fractal Geometry

A topic within Geometry, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Mathematics.

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Video2021

Newton's Fractal (which Newton knew nothing about)

Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)

Shows that applying Newton's root-finding method across the complex plane produces a fractal boundary between basins of attraction, arguing the method's local reliability hides genuinely chaotic global behaviour.

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Mathematics · Geometry

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Paper1918

Dimension und ausseres Mass

Felix Hausdorff

Defines a dimension that can take any non-negative real value, not just an integer, giving fractal geometry the measurement tool it would need decades later to make fractional dimension precise.

link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy

Mathematics · Geometry

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Reading on Fractal Geometry

Newton's Fractal (which Newton knew nothing about)

Dimension und ausseres Mass

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