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Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile

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Recreational & visual mathPure mathematics

What it is

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

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “My absolute favorite numberphile video is how pi occurs in a peculiar way with Riemann Zeta/Mandelbrot.”

    Surprising way pi appears in the Mandelbrot set

    elamje, 2019-09 · Strong recommendation · in “The Riemann Hypothesis”

  2. “I really enjoyed this video with Dr Holly Krieger of Numberphile.”

    Numberphile with Holly Krieger on pi and Mandelbrot

    kpil, 2017-03 · Recommendation · in “The Mandelwat Set”

  3. “There's a neat video explaining it here”

    Explains how pi emerges from the Mandelbrot set

    throwawaymath, 2019-05 · Recommendation · in “Generating the Mandelbrot Set”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: numberphile, mandelbrot, pi, holly krieger, fractals

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