Fractals and the art of roughness – Benoit Mandelbrot

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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.