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Mandelbrot set
Fractal named after mathematician Benoit MandelbrotThe Mandelbrot set is a two-dimensional set that is defined in the complex plane as the complex numbers for which the function does not diverge to infinity when iterated starting at , i.e., for which the sequence , , etc., remains bounded in absolute value.
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AI Generated- 1978The Mandelbrot set was first defined and drawn by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski.
- 1 March 1980Benoit Mandelbrot first visualized the set at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
- 1980Mandelbrot studied the parameter space of quadratic polynomials in an article that appeared this year.