I love visual math like this so much. I had a professor at my alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, who made a textbook called “Illustrated Theory of Numbers”, and it’s just beautiful. Marty Weissman, check it out sometime

Michael Barnsley's Fractals Everywhere is one of the best intro books i found on the subject

https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Everywhere-Michael-F-Barnsle...

Original posting from 10y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5036235

I assume this is where the programming language got its name from?

No connection I think: Karpinski said of the name "Julia": "There's no good reason, really. It just seemed like a pretty name." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)

The fractal is named after a mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set

This is an amazing visualization.