Hokusai Katsushika
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 3:40 pm
Hunting the Hidden Dimension
PBS Airdate: October 28, 2008
BENOIT MANDELBROT: After my book mentioned that Hokusai was fractal, I got inundated with people saying, "Now we understand Hokusai. Hokusai was drawing fractals."
RICHARD TAYLOR: . . so for Mandelbrot it's not about equations. It's about, "How do we explain this visual phenomenon?"
NARRATOR: Mandelbrot's fascination with the visual side of math began when he was a student.