MANDELBROT SET

noun Etymology: Benoit Mandelbrot Date: 1984 a fractal that when plotted on a computer screen roughly resembles a series of heart-shaped disks to which smaller disks are attached and that consists of a connected set of all points c in the complex plane for which the recursive expression z n +1 = z n 2 + c for n = 0, 1, 2, 3,…with the starting value z 0 = 0 remains bounded as n approaches infinity