Minkowski-Bouligand dimension
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Etymology
[edit]Named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski and the French mathematician Georges Bouligand.
Noun
[edit]Minkowski-Bouligand dimension (plural Minkowski-Bouligand dimensions)
- (geometry) A way of determining the fractal dimension of a set in a Euclidean space, or more generally in a metric space. It may be visualized by imagining the fractal lying on an evenly-spaced grid and counting how many boxes are required to cover the set. The dimension is then calculated by seeing how this number changes as the grid is made finer.
- Synonyms: box-counting dimension, Minkowski dimension