The Mandelbrot Set. Math like you never imagined!

Friday, July 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I showed Craig a mysterious hole in the earth in one of my patio plants, it looked like a small animal had dug it.  Actually, there was a little mess around two of my pots this morning.  He looked for info on the internet and we decided it must be squirrels and I can spray the pots with apple cider vinegar.  I will try this.
 
While he had my laptop open, Craig showed me this video, and a few others, about the Madelbrot set, (definition here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set ) I can hardly get my head around it but it is nevertheless, visually fascinating...like an endless universe expanding inwards rather than outwards.  There are many videos on Mandlebrot set, the following is a pretty good introduction, part 1 of a series of six.  As one presenter of this video series said, "Hope this rocks your world like it did mine.
Enjoy the mysteries of defined infinity!"
 

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