Fractals
"A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity. Roots of mathematically rigorous treatment of fractals can be traced back to functions studied by Karl Weierstrass, Georg Cantor and Felix Hausdorff in studying functions that were continuous but not differentiable; however, the term fractal was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin, fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion."
Recent Journal Articles
11/19/2010
Fractal analysis of viscoelastic data with automated gel point location and its potential application in the investigation of therapeutically modified blood coagulation
(901-908) Rheologica Acta 49 #9 (2010)
Evans et al showed that the gel point in oscillatory shear data of coagulating blood can follow the effect of heparin on samples of whole blood more accurately than thromboelastography. (RDC 11/20/2010)