The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

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The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, is a graduate research institute of Bard College that opened in New York City in 1993. Today the BGC offers two programs of study, one leading to a master of arts degree and the other to a doctor of philosophy degree. Students in these programs can select from a wide array of courses dealing with various aspects of the cultural history of the material world.

At his death in 2010, Mandelbrot left a mass of idiosyncratically organized drawings, computer print-outs, films, manuscript scribbles, objects, and photographs in his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an extraordinary trove to which Mandelbrot’s wife, Aliette, generously allowed Bard Graduate Center Visiting Assistant Professor Nina Samuel access. To explore it was like wandering through the mathematician’s brain—like witnessing the ephemeral traces of his very thought processes. Selections from these materials form the core of the exhibition.