Pathological monsters!
cried the terrified mathematician.
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye.
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve.
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set.
The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry.
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings.
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born.
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights.
Left him well equipped to face those demons down.
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules.
He used his giant brain and he turned the game around.
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head.
A bulbous pointy form.
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down.
Take a point called Z in the complex plane.
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C.
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C.
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on.
If the series of Z's will always stay.
Close to Z and never trend away.
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set.
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire.
You're a day-glo pterodactyl.
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire.
You're one bad-ass fucking fractal.
And you're just in time to save the day.
Sweeping all our fears away.
You can change the world in a tiny way.
Mandelbrot's in heaven,
order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none.
And his geometry succeeds where others fail.
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings.
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home.
Just take a point called Z in the complex plane.
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C.
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C.
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on.
If the series of Z's will always stay.
Close to Z and never trend away.
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set.
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire.
You're a day-glo pterodactyl.
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire.
You're one bad-ass fucking fractal.
Sweeping all our fears away.
You can change the world in a tiny way.
And you're just in time to save the day.
Sweeping all our fears away.
You can change the world in a tiny way.
Go on change the world in a tiny way.
Go on change the world in a tiny way.