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Fractals in Physics

Author: Robert BOTET

Publication date: April 10, 2001, Review date: February 4, 2020

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1. What is a fractal?

1.1 Revision of the usual notion of space dimension

The concept of fractality was born out of mathematicians' reflections on the notion of the dimension of space. Of course, some scientists had previously noticed objects with strange properties, which we now associate with fractals, but their complete and coherent formalism was only unveiled by B. Mandelbrot some twenty years ago ....

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