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 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.

Tuesday, 10/28/08 from 8-9 p.m. ET
Friday, 10/31/08 from 4:30-5:30 a.m. ET