Mandelbrot Set

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:51:04 +0200

Since I saw Alf in a camel you must are aware that I sometimes have somewhat weird associations. Here is another one: when I looked at Oriental Pearl TV tower from this perspective I suddenly saw the Mandelbrot Set in front of me. This was very popular when I went to grammar school and somehow stuck to my mind (in german we colloqually call it "Apfelmännchen", meaning "little apple man"). It is named after the mathematician who discovered it, Benoit Mandelbrot. I looked up his biography and learned that he had been working for IBM for 35 years. Which again reminded me, that I will be working for IBM again in just a few weeks...