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“The Mandelbrot set is, for many, the quintessential fractal,” Trochet wrote. “When one zooms in on some part of the edge, one notices that the Mandelbrot set is, indeed, self-similar.” ...

The Mandelbrot set is actually more complicated because you don’t plot c on a line but on a plane with x and y axes.

Decoding Math’s Most Famous Fractal Mathematicians working in the field of complex dynamical systems are patiently unraveling the Mandelbrot set’s mysteries and may be on the verge of solving a ...

No matter how much you zoom in on the Mandelbrot set, novel patterns always arise, without limit. “It’s completely mind-blowing to me, even now, that this very complex structure emerges from such ...

Fortunately, as with many things in graphics, rendering the Mandelbrot set can be easily parallelized. That’s what [rak277] and [ir93] demonstrate in their RP2040-based finals project.

Who discovered the Mandelbrot set? This is not a trick question—or a trivial one. The set has been called (in this magazine) “the most complex object in mathematics.” That is debatable, yet it is ...

Mandelbrot developed much of the formula he used to describe the phenomenon, which became known as the Mandelbrot set, while he worked in relative obscurity for 35 years before accepting a ...

Today (Nov. 20) is Benoit Mandelbrot's birthday. Mandelbrot was a renowned mathematician who defined fractals, one of the most important patterns in nature.(Image credit: Gamma-Rapho via Getty ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle honoring Benoit Mandelbrot, a Polish mathematician and the namesake of the Mandelbrot set. Born on November 20, 1924, in Warsaw, Poland ...