Popular Culture
- The Jonathan Coulton song, "Mandelbrot Set", is a tribute to both the fractal itself, and to its father Benoît Mandelbrot.
- The second book of the Mode series, Fractal Mode, describes a world that's a perfect 3d model of the set.
- The Mandelbrot set is found on the wings of the fictional Quantum Weather Butterfly in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
- The Arthur C. Clarke novel The Ghost from the Grand Banks features an artificial lake made to replicate the shape of the Mandelbrot set.
- Hip-Hop artist Greydon Square released an album titled, Type II : The Mandelbrot Set on October 16, 2012. The album is a follow up to his previous album, Type I: The Kardashev Scale.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)