The so-called “Sierpinski carpet” or “Sierpinski square” is a fractal, one of the two-dimensional analogs of the Cantor set, proposed by the mathematician Vaclav Sierpinski. The Cantor set (Cantor’s discontinuum or Cantor dust) is the simplest fractal, a subset of the unit segment of the real line, serving as a classical introduction of the discountinuum in mathematical analysis. It was described by George Cantor in 1883.
