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The history of fractals in the strict sense is fairly recent. Suddenly opened in 1975 with the revolutionary publication “A Theory of Fractal Sets” of mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, which became the basis of its fundamental text and manifest.
In “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” Mandelbrot, has coined the term fractal which derives from the Latin word “Fractus” (split), because the size of a fractal is not whole. The fractal geometric figures are characterized by repeated indefinitely until the same reason on an ever smaller scale.
The characteristic of these figures, a feat …
