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My first high-definition video, provided here in standard DVD resolution (up to 640x480). My web site has a true-HD version encoded at 1200x900 resolution and 15 Mbps bit rate, if you are prepared to download a 385 MB file!

Thanks once again to Technetium for providing the perfect music for this video!

This animation is named in honor of Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557), an Italian mathematician who was an early pioneer in the development of the concept of what are now called "imaginary" numbers. Tartaglia was one of the first to find solutions to third-order polynomials, but his solutions often involved taking the square roots of negative numbers. This was quite revolutionary in an era where the existence of negative numbers was considered dubious. The fact his solutions worked led to further investigations of the properties of this strange idea. Imaginary numbers now form the foundation of much of modern applied mathematics and are the soul of the world in which the Mandelbrot set lives.

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[Cimbolic]

Pure and beautiful!

[DeepZoomNet]

Thanks. I appreciate the positive feedback!

[Renax111]

maybe you should reupload now taht Youtube got hd

[andreaprodan]

interesting and stimulating theretically and phjlsphiclly.

Ettore Majorana would have been aroused...

[xclicker]

Hi DeepZoom,

your clips are absolute amazing!!!