A Physicist’s blog on Instagram: "Fractal numbers, rooted in the captivating world of fractal geometry, trace their origins to the 17th century with early hints in the work of mathematicians like Leibniz, but truly gained prominence in the 20th century through the pioneering work of Benoît B. Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” in 1975, deriving it from the Latin *fractus*, meaning “broken” or “fractured,” to describe shapes that exhibit self-similarity at every scale like the endle