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Hunting the Hidden Dimension: Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature. Airs on PBS October 28, 2008
A Radical Mind

A Radical Mind
Benoit Mandelbrot is a true maverick, as his interview reveals.

The Most Famous Fractal

The Most Famous Fractal
What exactly is the Mandelbrot set? Find out in this excerpt from the book Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos.

Design a Fractal

Design a Fractal
Create and save your own wildly colorful fractals using our generator.

Sense of Scale

A Sense of Scale
Explore the infinite detail of a Mandelbrot set as you zoom to a magnification of 250,000,000x.

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