Link to Fractals, the colors of infinity documentary
Documentary Description
The invention of the silicon chip in the 1970's created a revolution
in computers and communication and hence transformed our way of life.
We are now seeing another revolution which is going to change our view
of the universe and give us a better understanding of its' working.
This
film will explore the fractal universe and on our voyage of discovery,
we will be helped by: Professor Ian Stewart of the Mathematics
Institute, University of Warwick, an author of over 100 published
scientific works; Dr. Michael Barnsley, former professor of mathematics
at Georgia Institute of Technology who received a 2.5 million dollar
government grant in 1991 to develop a fractal image compression
systems; Professor Stephen Hawking, a mathematician and cosmologist,
and author of the best selling book 'A Brief History of Time,'; and
finally, Dr. Benoît Mandelbrot, whose unorthodox mathematics led to the
discovery of the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry
