Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness

Math Talk, Mathematics, Nature, TedTalks
January 11, 2021

On the TED stage, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot continues to explore themes that he initially highlighted at the conference in 1984: the immense complexity of roughness and the way that fractal mathematics may provide order to patterns that appear to be unfathomably complicated.

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