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Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile

Numberphile with Dr Holly Krieger shows how the digits of pi surprisingly emerge from the Mandelbrot set. A short, accessible math explainer.

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Recommended whenever the Mandelbrot set comes up, as a neat and surprising result.

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My absolute favorite numberphile video is how pi occurs in a peculiar way with Riemann Zeta/Mandelbrot. Maybe it only amazes me because I don’t have a PhD in math, but it just seemed so strange how pi shows up in this video. [VIDEO]
elamje on Hacker News · 2019-09
In The Riemann Hypothesis
I really enjoyed this video with Dr Holly Krieger of Numberphile. [LINK] There are a few more videos related to PI and The Mandelbrot set, Julia, etc. All nice to watch. [VIDEO]
kpil on Hacker News · 2017-03
In The Mandelwat Set
When you begin with z = k i - 0.75, you can obtain an arbitrarily good approximation of pi by multiplying the p for which f_p(z) = z^2 + z diverges by k . The approximation increases in precision as k tends to 0. There's …
throwawaymath on Hacker News · 2019-05
In Generating the Mandelbrot Set

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