Pi and the Mandelbrot Set - Numberphile
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended whenever the Mandelbrot set comes up, as a neat and surprising result.
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec elamje · 2019-09 · on “The Riemann Hypothesis”
My absolute favorite numberphile video is how pi occurs in a peculiar way with Riemann Zeta/Mandelbrot. Maybe it only amazes me because I don’t have a PhD in math, but it just seemed so strange how pi shows up in this video. [this video]
Recommends kpil · 2017-03 · on “The Mandelwat Set”
I really enjoyed this video with Dr Holly Krieger of Numberphile. [LINK] There are a few more videos related to PI and The Mandelbrot set, Julia, etc. All nice to watch. [this video]
Recommends throwawaymath · 2019-05 · on “Generating the Mandelbrot Set”
When you begin with z = k i - 0.75, you can obtain an arbitrarily good approximation of pi by multiplying the p for which f_p(z) = z^2 + z diverges by k . The approximation increases in precision as k tends to 0. There's a neat video explaining it here: [this video]