You will find much useful information about Benoit Mandelbrot,the Mandelbrot set and the Julia set, and fractals in general, through the following resources.

• Bob Devaney's Mandelbrot/Julia sets explorer (This is an interactive educational site.)
  
• Wikipedia (This Wikipedia site contains many interesting details and links.)
  
• Mandelbrot's home page
  

• Heinz-Otto Peitgen and P. H. Richter, The beauty of fractals : images of complex dynamical systems. A popular and spectacular book.
  
• James Gleick, Chaos : making a new science. A best seller in its day; for the general reader. Available in the public library.
  
• Schroeder, Manfred, Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws. This book is fascinating but a bit technical. Also available in the public library.
  

• Clay Institute Millennium Problems (Read about the biggest open problems in Mathematics)
  

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