673334 external_news 1709659017 1709659016 Even after decades of study, mathematicians find themselves unable to answer questions about the repeated execution of very simple rules — the most basic “dynamical systems.” But in trying to do so, they have uncovered deep connections between those rules and other seemingly distant areas of math. School of Mathematics Professor Matt Baker offered his thoughts on a seemingly simple set of functions, the Mandelbrot set, that gives rise to limitless novel patterns when examined closely.

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