>>11457632It was originally a quantitative field of study for the purpose of extending functions to the complex field, along with understanding the logistic map, periodicity, and their relation to the mandelbrot set, or just fractals in general for the purpose of quantifying their set theoretic significance, convergence properties and so forth. Then one day some physicists saw it and thought they could predict the weather or something, and morphed it into a bastardized statistical shell of its former self.
