Fractals | Learn About Infinite Patterns to Help You Sleep
4/24/202632 min
Can’t sleep, and your brain has decided now is the perfect time for geometry? Great. In this episode, Benjamin Boster calmly reads about fractals, the endlessly repeating patterns that show up in mathematics, coastlines, snowflakes, and other places where nature gets a bit unusual. You’ll learn what makes a fractal a fractal, why self similarity matters, and how these beautiful recursive shapes became such a big deal in math and science. It’s steady, clear, and relaxing, with no whispering, no sudden energy, and no expectation that you need to understand every last equation at 2 a.m. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Fractal, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsBenjamin Boster· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:34
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Speaker 40:40
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Benjamin Boster· Host1:09
Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast, where I help you drift off one fact at a time. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about fractals.
Speaker 31:26
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