| Brooks and Matelski |
2008 Feb 20.
Robert Brooks and Peter Matelski are credited with being the first to publish an image of the Mandelbrot set. Their article concerns discreteness criteria for Kleinian groups. The illustration, which appears on the last page of their article, looks roughly like this:
(-.07,.96) * **** ****** ***** * ********* *** **************** ******************** ** ************************* **************************** ******************************* ****************************** * ***** ******************************** *********** ******************************** ************* ******************************* ** ************** ****************************** **************************************************************** (1/4,0) (-2,0) ** ************** ****************************** ************* ******************************* *********** ******************************** * ***** ******************************** ****************************** ******************************* **************************** ************************* ******************** ** *** **************** * ********* ***** ****** **** * Fig. 2. The set of C's such that f(z)=z^2+C has a stable periodic orbit.
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Cited works include:
| abbrev | citation | Google query | notes |
| Brooks1978 | The dynamics of 2-generator subgroups of PSL(2,C), in "Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics", ed. Kra and Maskit, Ann. Math. Stud. 97, 65-71, ISBN 0-691-08264-2 | not online | history |
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