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[theweaselking]

13th century monk who wrote Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi also apparently discovered Mandelbrot set, seven hundred years before Mandelbrot.

Edit:
The discovery is especially impressive, considering that both the monk and the discoverer are fictional.

Comments

[publius1.livejournal.com]

This whole article is unbelievably fascinating. Almost like a Stephenson book...

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Wait a coal-minin' second. There's something fishy, here. Did people in the 1200's really normally live to be "threescore and ten" years old? 70? That seems awfully high.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I hate being gullible... http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Udo%20of%20Aachen

I'm even gullible when I'm cynical.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Very, very cute.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

What, the article itself or that I got caught by it? :-)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The article. I got caught, too.