Chapter 8. Fractals “Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician Every one of them 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 wanna cry And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born” — Jonathan Coulton, lyrics from “Mandelbrot Set” Onc