{"id":8204,"date":"2013-08-23T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2015-04-21T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T00:30:17","slug":"friday-math-movie-fractals-and-african-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-fractals-and-african-designs-8204","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Fractals and African designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Eglash tells us how Cantor, Koch and Mandelbrot developed the idea of fractals, and shows how these intriguing mathematical constructs appear in African designs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7n36qV4Lk94\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video is one of the highly recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/8-math-talks-to-blow-your-mind\/\">8 Math Talks to Blow Your Mind<\/a> by TED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-fractals-and-african-designs-8204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/06\/african.jpg\" alt=\"African fractal designs\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This is an interesting story about how Africans used fractal ideas for their designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}