Abstract

Many structures in nature like clouds, mountains, rocks,coastlines, trees, leaves, etc. has shapes which cannot be entirely described with Euclidean geometry i.e. in terms of lines , circles, spheres, cones, triangles, etc. Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 Nov.1924—14 Oct. 2010) a Polish born, French-American Mathematician developed a theory to measure roughness in nature, for which he gave a name as Fractals.

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