Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness

http://www.ted.com 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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[frederickcosa]

Beardyman brought me here?

[ganymedeIV4]

wow three months before his death.

I'm glad he helped to share his amazing discoveries right up until his death.

So RIP Mr.Mandelbrot, I wouldn't be where i am today with out your compassion and dedication to new fields of mathematics and physics.

[moti4love]

I am a Jew.

And I still can not digest the amount of genius that the Jewish people brought to the world.

Whoever reads the amount of geniuses - all types of areas - more likely to think that Jews are at least 300 million people. When in fact they are just. Less than 15 million people;)

And all this with only a hundred years ago they first allowed to enter the Academy.

It's just unbelievable! Just unbelievable!

[TheLovesoul1]

Didn't i hear this before man like a broken record!~ yaah!~

[TheLovesoul1]

thank you mr. mandlebrot this discovery is a great one!~

rip pf. mandlebrot!

[CRISNCHIPS12398]

"Mandelbrot's in heaven..." - Jonathan Coulton

[PktMma]

This stuff is amazing but I could hardly understand anything he said.

[crudhousefull]

It was mind-boggling to see Mandelbrot speak. Wow...what a giant

[darrenphughes]

You have nothing to prove? You have everything to prove because the burden is on you to validate your outlandish claims. Unfortunately for you, you can't prove a damn thing!

[darrenphughes]

Embry Riddle have included it in their Math 142 Trig class.

[hautepower]

You are covered in a very fine fuzz... :) Seriously this guy is amazing.