The term fractal was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot who was working at computer giant IBM in 1980.

分形一词是 1980 年在计算机巨头 IBM 工作的伯努瓦·曼德勃罗创造的。

This concept was even better explained a decade later in the 1960s by the works of the brilliant mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who developed the concept of fractals and geometry.

十年后的 20 世纪 60 年代，杰出的数学家伯努瓦·曼德布洛特提出了分形和几何的概念，他的著作对这一概念进行了更好的解释。