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How mathematicians do April Fool's.
Monk's 'Startling' Math Discovery
An astonishing instance of mathematical anticipation has recently come to light, showing that a monk discovered a complex formula centuries earlier than previously thought.
The Mandelbrot set is one of those dizzying fractal shapes that have come to symbolize the modern science of chaos theory. Like all such shapes, it is indefinitely convoluted and has arcs giving rise to smaller arcs and flares branching into smaller flares.
Oriented vertically, it can be viewed as a star, and it is this way of seeing the set that leads to what is probably one of the most arresting discoveries in the history of mathematics.
More tomfoolery at: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98615&page=1&singlePage=true
An astonishing instance of mathematical anticipation has recently come to light, showing that a monk discovered a complex formula centuries earlier than previously thought.
The Mandelbrot set is one of those dizzying fractal shapes that have come to symbolize the modern science of chaos theory. Like all such shapes, it is indefinitely convoluted and has arcs giving rise to smaller arcs and flares branching into smaller flares.
Oriented vertically, it can be viewed as a star, and it is this way of seeing the set that leads to what is probably one of the most arresting discoveries in the history of mathematics.
More tomfoolery at: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98615&page=1&singlePage=true
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