Fractals and the art of roughness

Name: Fractals and the art of roughness
Uploaded: 2010-07-06T09:20:00Z
Duration: 16 min 52 s
Description: At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.

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TED2010

• February 2010

At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.