A fractal paradox on how to measure: From coastlines to stochastic processes

Abstract: How long is a coastline? The inconvenient truth is that it depends on your ruler. Beginning with this paradox, we take a relaxed tour of fractal geometry, moving from tidy deterministic fractals like Cantor sets and Sierpiński triangles to the much rougher random fractals that arise in stochastic processes.

Mathematics

Audience: general audience

Gothenburg PhD seminar

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