Mandelbrot's Mysterious Fractal Edge
The Mandelbrot set has inspired music, fiction, paintings and countless psychedelic hallucinations. Its tangled wilderness also bears witness to incredible feats of mathematical imagination.
Plot the Mandelbrot set in interactive graphics and read Jordana Cepelewicz’s long read: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/
Watch our full video explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GAnW8xFJY
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