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The Mandelbrot set is a simple application of complex numbers that reveals an amazing degree of complexity that would have remained hidden without the digital computer. I remember discovering the set in the mid-1980s, and tried running the program on my BBC micro. It took forever, and was not worth the wait. Today, things are completely different, and many beautiful images are possible in a fraction of a second.
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Vince, J. (2018). The Mandelbrot Set. In: Imaginary Mathematics for Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94637-5_13
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