Exhibiting the Process of Science: ‘The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking’

Nina Samuel ()
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Nina Samuel: Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung (Humboldt University Berlin), and Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung

A chapter in Imagine Math 3, 2015, pp 129-155 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Focusing primarily on the work of one of the most notable mathematicians of the twentieth century, the exhibition The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking, explores the role of images in scientific thinking in the aftermath of a historic media shift—the new, image based society created by the digital revolution. Here, the images produced by the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot can be seen as icons of two of the most popular fields to use digital scientific imagery in the last century: chaos theory and fractal geometry. This paper presents the general idea behind the exhibition and summarizes the main arguments.

Keywords: Fractal Geometry; Chaos Theory; Thinking Process; Scientific Thinking; Digital Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01231-5_11

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