Thanks to Audible --- http://www.audible.com/numberphile This video features Dr Holly Krieger. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extra footage from this interview: https://you...
========== HOLLY KRIEGER: So what I want to talk aboutis what is maybethe least efficient way possibleto approximate the number pi.BRADY HARAN: Well, that's not a good sell!HOLLY KRIEGER: It's not a good sellbut it's really interesting.So I wanna talk about approximating pi in the Mandelbrot setMaybe it's best to do a bit of a reminder aboutwhat the Mandelbrot set is.So, remember, the Mandelbrot setwas this object that we have in thecomplex plane.So, here are the real numbers.And here are the imaginary numbers.And the Mandelbrot set was a collection ofcomplex numbers, so I'll try and sort ofdraw a nice version of this here.And-- it's complicated, right?And it was this collection ofcomplex numbers that had the propertythat whe...
