Mandelbrot set

One entry found for Mandelbrot set.

Main Entry: Man·del·brot set
Pronunciation: 'man-d&l-"brät-, -"brot-
Function: noun
Etymology: Benoit Mandelbrot
: a fractal that when plotted on a computer screen roughly resembles a series of heart-shaped disks to which smaller disks are attached and that consists of a connected set of all points c in the complex plane for which the recursive expression z_n+1 = z_n² + c for n = 0, 1, 2, 3,...with the starting value z₀ = 0 remains bounded as n approaches infinity