On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/17/2012 2:45 PM, Terren Suydam wrote: >> >> Benoit Mandelbrot did. > > > I wasn't aware of that. Did he have a proof of the fractal nature of the > set before he calculated it? > > Brent
I don't know. I doubt it, I'm not even sure he had even coined the term 'fractal' yet. I would be willing to bet though that what made plotting z' = z^2 + c interesting to him was the same basic curiosity that led astronomers to point Hubble at an empty patch of space (despite the considerable cost of doing so): is there anything there to be discovered? Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
