Photo at left is the original Mandelbrot set.
Click here to see four up close details of the image at left.
What do movie special effects, the stock market, heart attacks, and the rings of Saturn have in common?
They're all 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.
NOVA tells the dramatic story of a group of pioneering mathematicians who developed fractals from a curiosity that few took seriously to an approach that is touching nearly every branch of understanding - including what happened after the Big Bang and the ultimate fate of our universe.
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