Fractals: Whoa

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 7 June 2012

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s, IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot gazed for the first time upon his famous fractal. What resulted was a revolution in math and geometry and our understanding of the infinite, not to mention how we see Star Trek II.

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0:59.2	Well fractals.
1:00.8	Yay, more math.
1:02.3	Theoretical math even.
1:05.2	A new branch of geometry.
1:07.0	It's non-uclidean.
1:09.4	Since you brought it up.
1:11.1	Very new.
1:12.2	Euclidean geometry was like 300 BC.
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