Mandelbrot Set

I must admit that I am a geek...of the math/tech flavor, not the glass/live chicken eating variety. Some time ago Jonathan Coulton wrote the best math song since Tom Lehrer wrote New Math. Personally, I much prefer the acoustic version, but the more rocking version is excellent, too. Here, I offer you FOUR different videos of the same song...all are worth listening to and watching. I've added a bit of description below each:

Very funny, pity they bleeped the one bad word.


Brilliant! Leave it to a Scandinavian.


Nice use of zooming deeper into fractals and the "plotting" of the chorus is just great.


Very simple...very beautiful and an exceptional demonstration of the complexity and stunning nature of fractals. Then entire video is set to a slowly zooming frame...it does not change position, just drills down in a wonderful example why fractals make math geeks happy.

If you do not know about Mandelbrot and/or fractals, this is actually a great starting place...both on the "art" of it as well as the math and history.