Re: Colors of Infinity

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From: wo... Wolfgang Schwanke
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00

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>David B. Greene (da...@sendnomailto.halcyon.com) wrote:

>: What I wonder is, can the Mandelbrot set really be called something that
>: has always existed, as though it were part of the fabric of the universe,

Well no, it's mathematics.
Mathematics is a made up set of rules. Made up by humans.
It's not intrinsic to the universe.
Many people tend to forget that, because math makes a damn good
model of the universe (it was designed to do so).

Greetings

wolfgang

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From: wo...@berlin.snafu.de (Wolfgang Schwanke)
Subject: Re: Colors of Infinity
Date: 1997/06/08
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