Giles Foden

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

English Author

Recursion must have an endpoint to prevent infinite loops.

Limiting Condition

Misusing recursion can cause stack overflow, crashing the program.

Programming Errors

Recursion can be less efficient and slower than iteration in some cases.

Efficiency Matters

In math, recursion defines something using its own previous term.

Self-Containment

Understanding recursion in mathematics can lead to innovative problem-solving.

Creative Thinking

Recursive sequences often provide a simple form for complex relationships.

Elegant Solutions

Recursion isn't always the first solution people think of, but can be effective.

Not Always Obvious

Recursion is a universal concept and can be applied in various fields.

Broad Applicability

 -- and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals. The mathematicians who were saying these were pathologically useless shapes? They were breathing those words with fractal lungs. It's very ironic. And I'll show you a little natural recursion here.

Ron Eglash: The fractals...

 called recursion, which means structures can be nested inside each other. Take this sentence, which embeds a sentence within a sentence within a sentence.