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Hofstadter's butterfly

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Hofstadter's butterfly

Summary

Hofstadter's butterfly ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Hofstadter's butterfly's image is recorded as Gplot by Hofstadter.jpg[2].
  • Hofstadter's butterfly's image is recorded as Hofstadter's butterfly.png[3].
  • Hofstadter's butterfly's image is recorded as Hofstadter's butterfly vector 70.svg[4].
  • Hofstadter's butterfly's subclass of is recorded as fractal[5].
  • Hofstadter's butterfly's Commons category is recorded as Hofstadter's butterfly[6].
  • Hofstadter's butterfly's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08d906[7].
  • Hofstadter's butterfly's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780638154[8].

Why It Matters

Hofstadter's butterfly ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hofstadter-s-butterfly_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Hofstadter's butterfly}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hofstadter-s-butterfly}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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