Nova

Hunting The Hidden Dimension

Season 35, Episode 14 of 18

What do movie special effects, the stock market, heart attacks and the rings of Saturn have in common? They're all connected by a revolutionary new branch of math called fractals, which has changed the way we see the world and opened up a vast new territory to scientific analysis and understanding. NOVA tells the dramatic story of a group of pioneering mathematicians who developed fractals from a curiosity that few took seriously to an approach that is touching nearly every branch of understanding - including what happened after the Big Bang and the ultimate fate of our universe.

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
10/28/2008
8 p.m.
8/21/2009
11 p.m.
8/22/2009
4 a.m.
8/23/2009
4 p.m.
12/14/2010
8 p.m.
12/15/2010
1 a.m.
8/24/2011
9 p.m.
8/25/2011
2 a.m.
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