Happy birthday to Benoît Mandelbrot
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Today the father of fractal geometry turns 83. Benoît Mandelbrot is known for the Mandelbrot set, a set of points in the complex plane that forms a fractal. To see if a point c belongs to the Mandelbrot set start with z0 = 0 and generate the sequence z1, z2, z3,.. by iterating the function zn+1 = zn2 + c. If the value z remains close to the origin, the value c belongs to the Mandelbrot set. If it runs away to infinity, it doesn't. Plotting the set of points in the complex plane gives you this picture.
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