1: Everything you need to know about the Mandelbrot Set (Pure Mathematics and Art)
The Mandelbrot Set is a set of complex numbers commonly used in art, due to its mathematical beauty. It was first defined by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelksi in 1978, and the first visualisation was made by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1980. Credit: American Scientist A lot of websites, videos, applets, and so on do a repeated zoom into the boundary of the Mandelbrot Set. But in mathematical terms, we define the Mandelbrot Set as the set of complex numbers which (under iteration) stays bounded within two. Here’s how it’s mathematically represented (don’t skip this, it’s easy math): f c (z) = z 2 + c, f c (z)<= 2 Let’s take an example here to understand this. If c=-2, f -2 (0) = 0 2 + (-2) = -2 (You start with z=0 as default) f -2 (-2) = (-2) 2 + (-2) = 4+ (-2) = 2 (You take the result of the previous function and input it as z in the next iteration) f- 2 (2) = (2) 2 + (-2) = 4+ (-2) = 2 We know that the result of the previous function (2), upon another iteration will yield (2)