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MANDELBROT Questions and Answers When did the mandelbrot surface?
Who found the thing?
How does the Mandelbrot come to form?
What is ITERATION?
Does the mandelbrot come from an equation?
Where can I find out more about these mandelbrots?

The mandelbrot was first discovered about 1980, so it is fairly new to the mathematical world. Here are some of the first sets that were seen using computer generated software. The first image is from 1982.

Asking who found the Mandelbrot? Well, Mr. Mandelbrot himself (depicted to the here on the right). To be more exact, Benoit B. Mandelbrot. He is a mathematician, born in 1924 in Warsaw. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and at the California Institute of Technology

What is know as the mandelbrot set is..
Iteration is..

The Equation is Z=z*z+c

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