Fractals and the art of jaggedness - Benoit Mandelbrot
Mar 13, 2026•23 min
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/fractals-and-the-art-of-roughness-benoit-mandelbrot
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.
Talk by Benoit Mandelbrot.
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