Qu'est-ce que la géométrie fractale ?

En raison de la situation actuelle au Moyen-Orient, j’ai été momentanément bloqué à l’étranger, ce qui m'a empêché d’enregistrer de nouveaux épisodes pour cette semaine. Je suis contraint de vous proposer des rediffusions jusqu'à vendredi. Veuillez m'en excuser. Hébergé par Acast ...  Show more

Longtemps, cette idée a relevé du cliché ou du malaise social. Pourtant, la science a fini par montrer qu’il existe bien une base biologique objective à ce phénomène. Des chercheurs japonais ont identifié le composé chimique principalement responsable de cette odeur particulière, ...  Show more

In the 1980s, IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot gazed for the first time upon his famous fractal. What resulted was a revolution in math and geometry and our understanding of the infinite, not to mention how we see Star Trek II. Get blown away by fractals in this classic epi ...

In the 1980s, IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot gazed for the first time upon his famous fractal. What resulted was a revolution in math and geometry and our understanding of the infinite, not to mention how we see Star Trek II.

In this episode, Robert and Julie take a sweeping look at math, addressing several important questions. For example: What is math? Where does math come from? What mathematical skills are we born with and how much can we understand?

If anyone has taken some basic mathematics, you are probably familiar with Euclidian Geometry. Euclidean geometry is what most people just call geometry.  It is the study of shapes like triangles and circles in a simple plane. This type of geometry was developed over 2000 years a ...  Show more