The Mandelbrot Monk

[MarkFL]

This is certainly not "breaking" news, but I saw this article a few years ago and happened upon it again, and wanted to share it here:

THE MANDELBROT MONK

It seems that what is perhaps the most iconic image of fractal geometry was known centuries before its "discovery" by Benoit Mandelbrot. I can't even begin to imagine the tedium of doing such calculations for years by hand...

 

[Lamb]

Initially, Udo's aim was to devise a method for determining who would reach heaven. He assumed each person's soul was composed of independent parts he called "profanus" (profane) and "animi" (spiritual), and represented these parts by a pair of numbers.

Strange how a monk forgot that only God knows who has faith.

 

[psalms 91]

Yeah it is