The properties and circumstances of the discovery of the Mandelbrot Set continue to generate much interest in the research community and beyond. This book conta... » 

The properties and circumstances of the discovery of the Mandelbrot Set continue to generate much interest in the research community and beyond. This book contains the hard-to-obtain original papers, many unpublished illustrations dating back to 1979 and extensive documented historical context showing how Mandelbrot helped change our way of looking at the world. «