SYSK Selects: Fractals - Whoa

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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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. Get blown away by fractals in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	Howdy folks, Charles W. Chuck Bryant here in the Corral.
0:04.1	And I'm going to last up a stuff you should know select for you from June 7th, 2012.
0:10.2	Fractals, colon, whoa.
0:12.6	This is a tough one for me.
0:13.6	I'm not going to lie.
0:15.2	Fractals is one of the toughest episodes I've ever had to learn in research.
0:18.8	And that's where we're going to revisit it right here, right now.
0:25.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:29.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast of Josh Clark hanging on by my fingernails.
0:39.8	With me as always, it's Charles W. Chuck Bryant doing much the same as we were about to start
0:45.6	speaking on Stuff You Should Know.
0:48.4	About fractals.
0:49.4	Yay, more math.
0:51.5	Theoretical math, even.
0:53.3	Yeah.
0:54.3	A new branch of geometry.
0:56.1	It's non-uclidean.
0:57.6	Since you brought it up, very new, Euclidean geometry was like 300 BC.
1:05.2	And fractals are 1975.
1:07.7	Yep.
1:08.7	So there's a little bit of a gap there.
1:10.9	There is a little bit of a gap.
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