Project Sherlock

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2021

Newton's Fractal (which Newton knew nothing about)

Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)

Shows that applying Newton's root-finding method across the complex plane produces a fractal boundary between basins of attraction, arguing the method's local reliability hides genuinely chaotic global behaviour.

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Filed under Geometry in Mathematics.