The collection, Further Abstracts, shows geometric doodles sliding and spinning with life on plain old graph paper. It’s basically what every day-dreaming trig student wishes would happen with ...

Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born, French and American mathematician, known as the "father of fractal geometry," is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been his 96th birthday.

His pictures are consistently geometric, intricate, and clever in the way they link disparate parts into a larger whole. But while his doodles hinted at elaborate and expansive visions ...

Many presidents doodle. Andrew Jackson drew faces and animals (he favored alligators and tortoises); Herbert Hoover sketched elaborate geometric designs on White House stationery. There is ...

Go to Google image search; type in “doodles”—you can limit the search to any number of types of doodles, such as “geometric doodles,” “crayon doodles,” “flower doodles,” “fun doodles,” “squiggle ...

Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was caught today drifting off, scribbling geometric doodles on her remarks page in blue pen. Today, Mrs Clinton delivered remarks on the Middle East ...

Drawn from the irregular shapes and processes found in nature, his research benefited a wide array of fields, from art to physics and finance. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News.