Are Julia sets the inspiration for the name of julia the language?

Nope. The language was named arbitrarily, the sets are named after a French Mathematician.

We are free to come up with myths about the name origin. My favorite one is that it comes from Julia character of George Orwell's 1984 novel :D

This is very well-written. I often struggle with formal explanations of complex and abstract ideas, but the author is getting this across very well. Good stuff.

Just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the author of this site. Loads quick, gives me just what I need, no fancy stuff, looks great. Thank you!

Came here to say the same. This site is a thing of "elegance and simplicity" as they say in car commercials.

Slightly OT, but I remember doing the Santa FE Institute's online courses on Complexity and finding them to be very solid on the topic https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses

true, true ... I especially love Liz Breadly's course https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/167-nonlinear-dyn...

she seems an amazing educator, check out her 12 min intro: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MizhVorgywY

don't know how long she worked on that script (conveying the idea first, details later). it's the first time I really understood the basics of linear dynamics. super impressive.

btw all of their videos are hosted on YouTube.

I keep on wanting to take this course, so thanks for the vote of confidence on the course itself.

https://chaosbook.org/ see also this.

Fantastic resource.