Lyrics Mandelbrot Set (Live 2014) - Jonathan Coulton

Pathological Monsters!
Cried the terrified mathematician
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye.
I hate the Pinot space and the Koch curve
I fear the Cantor ternary set
The Serpinski gasket makes me want to cry.
And a million miles away
A buttyfly flaps 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 equiped 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
Saw a vision in his head
A bulbous pointy form,
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 wires
You're one badass 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.
He gave us order out of chaos,
Gave us hope where there was none,
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.
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 wires
You're one badass 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.
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
Come on change the world in a tiny way