"The Colors of Infinity": Arthur C. Clarke Explains Mandelbrot's Fractals (Video)
Posted by Videodrome on Monday, Oct 18, 2010
Math maverick Benoit Mandelbrot, who developed fractal geometry, died last week. At the center of his work was the Mandelbrot set, which described the fractals that lie everywhere in nature. The 1995 documentary, “The Colors of Infinity,” directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon and hosted by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and featuring appearances by Stephen Hawking and Mandelbrot himself.
Google VideoArthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.
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