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First appearance of Mandelbrot set?[edit]

The Mandelbrot set was used as a decorative motif for a kind of space portal in Episode 11 of Space 1999. The episode was broadcast in 1975: https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/813719gk/4fbb5a0c/gtv-archive-shutterstock-editorial-813719gk.jpg

The problematic description[edit]

Let's talk about the painful description of this page.

You see, nearly every other mathematical wikipage has a good text description. This one, however, has an equation in it.

This is really uncanny and should be removed.

- Tom Epsilon (edits) (email) 06:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Issue is that the set is formed/defined by an equation so it's pretty hard to write a description that does not include the equation itself. I do think that some of the more technical language should be removed to make it more understandable to readers (such as changing "remains bounded" to "does not escape to infinity")

- Roboprince (talk) 10:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely bad writing[edit]

The article contains this sentence:

"The Mandelbrot set can also be defined as the connectedness locus of the family of quadratic polynomials, while its boundary can be defined as the bifurcation locus of this quadratic family."

If you are unable or unwilling to write in much clearer language than that, then I really hope you wait until you do before posting again. 2601:200:C000:1A0:C8A4:CA26:62BA:98A2 (talk) 00:33, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you are unwilling to tolerate even a brief mention of more-advanced mathematics concepts in your reading, with appropriate links where you can find out more about those concepts if you have any curiosity about what they might mean, then reading about mathematics on Wikipedia may not be for you. We cannot lobotomize our content to the point where even mathematics-averse and mathematically illiterate readers will find nothing to challenge them. That would make the articles uninformative for the rest of their readers. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:37, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing whatsoever wrong with mentioning advanced or even very advanced mathematical concepts.

But if you use advanced language when simpler language is readily available and comprehensible to a much wider swath of people, then you show that you don't understand the purpose of an encyclopedia. 2601:200:C000:1A0:C8A4:CA26:62BA:98A2 (talk) 00:45, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Though I disagree with the way the criticism was made, this definition as well as the two locus definitions it linked to had issues as written which may have contributed to an impression of word salad. I made minor edits to all three pages to attempt to address those issues. Sue Don M (talk) 05:00, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Any Good?[edit]

I made this website dedicated to the mandelbrot set (and Julia set). (it takes a sec to load) But is it something worth including on the wiki page?

Link: https://peter-metcalfe.co.uk/fractals/

Peter-3113 (talk) 14:47, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Peter. At the least it needs a much better explanation of what is going on. What are we looking at? What do mouse movements do? What are the sliders on the top? What do the function entries do? I'm thinking the mouse generates a complex constant that is then added to the function and then iterated. Is that right? Need an explanation at the high school math level.--agr (talk) 15:02, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback.

Are you suggesting adding this exlpanation on my web site itself, or having it around/before the linked is pressed.

Just wanted to clarify.

But I do agree, it could be clearer. (Although there is a brief description if you press ' i ' ). Peter-3113 (talk) 19:04, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have added more info now.

Hope this helps.

[1]https://peter-metcalfe.co.uk/fractals/ Peter-3113 (talk) 13:09, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Proof of God?[edit]

Dr Jason Lisle a scientist with a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder, in his book, Fractals: The Secret Code of Creation writes that the Mandelbrot set provides proof of God's existence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.143.179.67 (talk) 21:50, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]