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.
What does Mandelbrot mean by roughness? Is it the same as irregularity?
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