What's up with the Google logo today?

[Towncrier]

Why has it been replaced with a fractal representation?

<img src=http://www.google.com/logos/julia.gif></img>

 

[katerkat]

Today is Gaston Maurice Julia's birthday - those are Julia fractals.

 

[browneyes]

Today is Gaston Julia's bday. He was a French Mathematician.

 

[alabamaalan]

Now did both of you know that without looking it up on Google?

 

[nativetxn]

I didn't know that, Alan

 

[katerkat]

My mommy is a math teacher, and she told me.

 

[Towncrier]

It wasn't on my 2004 Futurama Calendar so I didn't know. Thanks for the update.

BTW - Today's celebrity birthdays include Gertrude Stein and Norman Rockwell.