Life emerges out of chaos; a poetically as well as a mathematically.
Fractals mirror nature with an eerie, haughty, Bach-like precision.
I was fascinated with fractals in the 1990's and had
the good fortune to work as a software developer at Michael Barnesley's company,
Iterated Systems. I'm sure many of the mathematicians there would
have rolled their eyes hearing my flowery description.
