That is totally amazing. St. Udo, patron of complexity?
The Monte Carlo stuff tying in with the lyrics of Carmina Burana is just
too perfect!
Wow.
scerir wrote:
>
> Udo of Aachen (XIII sec.), copyist, monk,
> mathematician, the poet of Carmina Burana.
> Discovered the Mandelbrot (fractal) set
> well before Mandelbrot (1976), but without
> any help from computers.
>
> http://www.freezone.co.uk/rgirvan/udo.htm
> (interesting pictures)
>
> I'm a bit mixed.
> Leonardo invented the "@" symbol.
> Udo and not Peano, Gaston Julia or
> Benoit Mandelbrot, was the first fractalist.
> Who then invented "extropy", really?
>
> scerir
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