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The term fractal was first coined by the Polish-born, French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in the mid 1970s.
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La Mantia, F. (2020). Fractal. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_45
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