Who Discovered the Mandelbrot Set?

[Nahee_Enterprises]

Did the father of fractals "discover" his namesake set?   Read the details in what John Horgan made available within the Scientific American:

    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=mandelbrot-set-1990-horgan

An interesting read if you have a few minutes to spare (there are three pages of text).  And I like the very last line of this article:

  "The final answer, if pursued, seems likely to recede in a blur of ever finer detail."

 

[jehovajah]

This is an age old problem. Respect, primacy magnanimity, all human failings! The fact is that the icon and the buzz word fractal now belong to the whole community, and have achieved a life of their own.

The set has inspired through its imaging , the reconnection of artisans and academicians, and stripped away the pretense that mathematics is singular.mrather it has isolated itself from its geometrical roots and needed the burgeoning computer science monolith to rescue it from an ignominious death!