Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Produced By: WGBH
- Year: 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 56m
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What do movie special effects, the stock market, and heart attacks have in common? They are connected by a revolutionary new branch of math called fractals, which changed the way we see the world and opened up a vast new territory to scientific analysis and understanding. Meet the mathematicians who developed fractals from a mere curiosity to an approach that touches nearly every branch of understanding, including the fate of our universe.