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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun For any holomorphic function on a complex plane, the boundary of the set of points whose result diverges when the function is iteratively evaluated at each point.
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- noun In the mathematical context of complex
dynamics , a set consisting of values generated by a mathematical function such that anarbitrarily smallperturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Gaston Julia, (1893–1978), French mathematician.]
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