Title: Mandelbrot Monk Post by: stardust4ever on April 01, 2016, 12:42:53 PM I always find it fun to revisit old stories on their anniversary. I rather enjoyed this classic read from 1999:
http://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractals/MandelSet/MandelMonk/MandelMonk.html Title: Re: Mandelbrot Monk Post by: Kalles Fraktaler on April 01, 2016, 01:48:56 PM I always find it fun to revisit old stories on their anniversary. I rather enjoyed this classic read from 1999: Happy fools day 1st of April :Dhttp://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractals/MandelSet/MandelMonk/MandelMonk.html Title: Re: Mandelbrot Monk Post by: stardust4ever on April 01, 2016, 02:46:15 PM I forgot when I first read that article, but I believed it for quite some time before realizing it was a hoax. Very well written I might add. :D
EDIT: It seems a bunch people got fooled too. This news article from 2007 for instance takes it at face value, questioning why this "discovery" had not been more publicized. http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=98615&sid=79 Title: Re: Mandelbrot Monk Post by: lycium on April 01, 2016, 03:59:00 PM Here we see the Mandelbrot Monk hard at work: (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Douris_Man_with_wax_tablet.jpg) |