Tag: Complex Numbers

Amherst College Science Center

Abstract Art — or a Mathematical Pattern in Disguise: An Introduction to the Mandelbrot Set

At first glance, the picture above could be mistaken for a piece of abstract art you’d find in a gallery. What’s striking is that it isn’t artwork — it’s the outcome of a single rule in mathematics, applied endlessly.  Professor Robert Benedetto, a Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College, was the speaker for the Math…