June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
12h 59m
English
In 1975, the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot coined the term fractal. A fractal is a mathematical figure or set, which has certain interesting mathematical properties, but in the end, it just looks like a piece of art. Fractals also look infinitely repetitive when being zoomed in. One of the most popular fractals is the Mandelbrot set, which can be seen on the following poster:

A picture of the Mandelbrot set can be generated by iterating a specific formula:

The variables z and c are complex numbers. ...
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