Fractals

The case of the missing fractals : Alex Rosenthal and George Zaïdan (TED video)

Benoit Mandelbrot : Hunting the hidden dimension (video).

How Mandelbrot's fractals changed the world ?  BBC magazine article.

How long is the coast of Britain ? article from Benoit Mandelbrot, Science 1967 (on Yale University website).

Places where you can find fractals...

Fractal zoom Mandelbrot corner (video).


Some other interesting ressources on fractals :

 

Maths Projects          Zooming in on a Sierpinsky  fractal       Figures for "Impossible  fractals"

 


Studying abroad

Education at a glance 2012 : OECD. How many students study abroad and where do they go ?

The statistics of studying abroad : BBC article.

What Statistics show about study abroad students : University of California.


Cryptography

 

Cryptography 101 : the basics (video) : basic terminology in cryptography, including what is a ciphertext, plaintext, keys, public key crypto, and private key crypto

Caesar cipher (video) : code breaking, frequency analysis,...

Cryptography in our lives : TED video from Tal Rabin, Manager and research staff member of the Cryptography Research Group at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

Cryptography for everyone : John Voight at TEDxUVM (he is assistant professor of mathematics and computer science).