Ptolemy I Soter way to master it. According to Proclus Euclid famously quipped: "Sire, there is no Royal Road to geometry." Ptolemy I Soter Ptolemy I Soter (; , "Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr" "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC – January 282 BC) was a companion and historian of Alexander the Great who succeeded to his empire. Ptolemy became ruler of Egypt (323–282 BC) and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty which ruled it for the next three centuries, turning Egypt into a Hellenistic kingdom and Alexandria into a center of Greek culture. Ptolemy was the son of Arsinoe of Macedon by either her husband Lagus or
The Fractal Geometry of Nature The Fractal Geometry of Nature The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a 1982 book by the Franco-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot. "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" is a revised and enlarged version of his 1977 book entitled "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension", which in turn was a revised, enlarged, and translated version of his 1975 French book, "Les Objects Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension". "American Scientist" put the book in its one hundred books of 20th century science. As technology has improved mathematically accurate, computer-drawn fractals have become more detailed. Early drawings were low-resolution black and white; later drawings were higher