• Benoit Mandelbrot
• Mathematician, "father of fractal geometry"

• Speaking at TED2010
• February 2010
• Long Beach, CA

Fractals and the art of roughness: Mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.