Definitions
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- noun French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924)
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Mandelbrot is Yiddish for "almond bread" and is slightly different than biscotti (Italian for "twice cooked").
J. Weekly 2009
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Mandelbrot is Yiddish for "almond bread" and is slightly different than biscotti (Italian for "twice cooked").
J. Weekly 2009
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Mandelbrot is Yiddish for "almond bread" and is slightly different than biscotti (Italian for "twice cooked").
J. Weekly 2009
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According to Joan Nathan, it may have been the large Jewish population that once resided in Piedmont, Italy that brought biscotti to Eastern Europe, where it was subsequently adapted and became known as Mandelbrot, which means almond bread.
Jewesses With Attitude - Where Jewish women tell it like it is 2010
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"It tends to be taken for granted," Schipke says, "That the Mandelbrot is too calculation-intensive to be done without computers.
Archive 1999-04-01 Ray Girvan 1999
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"It tends to be taken for granted," Schipke says, "That the Mandelbrot is too calculation-intensive to be done without computers.
The Mandelbrot Monk Ray Girvan 1999
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It's called the Mandelbrot Set (from now on, the M-Set) and you're soon going to meet it everywhere - in the design of fabrics, wallpaper, jewelry, and linoleum.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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It's called the Mandelbrot Set (from now on, the M-Set) and you're soon going to meet it everywhere - in the design of fabrics, wallpaper, jewelry, and linoleum.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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The most famous computer-generated fractal is called the Mandelbrot set - a swirling, feathery, seemingly organic landscape that is reminiscent of the natural world, but is nonetheless completely virtual.
BBC News - Home 2010
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This is a very deep zoom into a fractal called the Mandelbrot set. the boundary of the Mandelbrot set is infinite in length and detail. the deeper you go the more complex the image gets.
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