Fractals | Learn About Infinite Patterns to Help You Sleep

About this episode

In this episode, Benjamin Boster discusses fractals and their significance in mathematics and nature to help listeners relax and sleep.

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

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin Boster

Topics covered

• fractals
• geometry
• sleep
• mathematics
• nature
• patterns

Keywords

• fractals
• sleep
• geometry
• patterns
• mathematics
• self similarity
• recursive shapes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikipedia

Books & works: Fractal

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