Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness

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

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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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