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June 2009
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julia set

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You've probably seen pictures of the famed Mandelbrot set and its mysterious cousins, the Julia sets. In this article Robert L. Devaney explores the maths behind these beauties and shows that they're loaded with mathematical meaning.

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A mathematical model evaluates responses to epidemics

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Some news on Julia sets

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