The Mandelbrot set is one of the most famous sets in mathematics.
It is an important example of a fractal - a mathematical object that is approximately self-similar across an infinity of scales.
This set was named after Benoit Mandelbrot (1924- ) who, as an IBM researcher in the 1970’s, was the first to use computers to visually explore the complex mathematical objects that had been first investigated by the French mathematicians Pierre Fatou (1878-1929) and Gaston Julia (1893-1978).
Fractals play a critical role in many natural and physical processes.
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