In case you are short of something to read on these short and wintry days, I thought I should suggest something nostalgic. I spent part of my career in Brighton and remember vividly the poster shops in the North Lanes plastered with images of the Mandelbrot set. Every now and then a mathematical idea catches the imagination of the muggle world and spreads into art and society in unexpected ways. The discovery of non-Euclidean geometry in the XIIIth century was an early(ish) example and the work of Godel and others had a similar profound impact. Other discoveries have had a less sustained effect on culture, but an outsize impact for a while. Catastrophe theory is one example, and the Mandelbrot set is another. They both featured in stories and magazine articles but have faded a little in the popular imagination, but they are both truly significant ideas in mathematics, and well worth investigation. Quanta (it is always Quanta) has a nice article on the Mandelbrot set that you might enjoy. Have a good weekend.
PS, don’t forget that Sunday is puzzle day here on the News page!