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Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom

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Video description: An extremely deep dive into the Mandelbrot zoom. If the final frame were the size of your screen, the full set would be larger than the known universe.

Fractal geometry
is the study of complex shapes with the property of self-similarity, known as fractals. The term fractal was coined in 1975 by the mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot (b. 1924), to describe shapes which are detailed at all scales. This new system of geometry has had a significant impact on such diverse fields as the stock market, physical chemistry, physiology, and fluid mechanics; fractals can describe irregularly shaped objects or spatially no uniform phenomena that cannot be described by Euclidean geometry.
 

Benoit B. Mandelbrot , PhD, (born November 20, 1924) is a Franco-American mathematician, best known as the "father of fractal geometry".
 

 

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