| Description |
xiii, 206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Series |
MAA notes ; 58 |
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MAA notes ; no. 58.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index. |
| Contents |
Some reasons for the effectiveness of fractals in mathematics education / Benoit Mandelbrot. Michael Frame -- Unsolved problems and still-emerging concepts in fractal geometry ; Fractals, graphics, and mathematics education ; Mathematics and society in the 20th century / Benoit Mandelbrot -- Teaching fractals and dynamical systems at the Hotchkiss school / Melkana Brakalova, David Coughlin -- Reflecting on wada basins : some fractals with a twist / Dane Camp -- Learning and teaching about fractals / Donald M. Davis -- The Fractal geometry of the Mandelbrot set: periods of the bulbs / Robert L. Devaney -- Fractals : energizing the mathematics classroom / Vicky Fegers, Mary Beth Johnson -- Other chaos games / Sandy Fillebrown -- Creating and teaching undergraduate courses and seminars in fractal geometry : a personal experience / Michel Lapidus -- Exploring fractal dimensions by experiment / Ron Lewis -- Fractal themes at every level / Kenneth G. Monks -- Art and fractals : artistic explorations of natural self-similarity / Brianna Murratti, Michael Frame -- Order and chaos, art and magic : a first college course in quantitiative reasoning based on fractals and chaos / David Peak, Michael Frame -- A Software driven undergraduate fractals course / Douglas C. Ravenel -- The Fractal ring from art to art through mathematics, finance, and the sciences / Benoit B. Mandelbrot -- Panorama of fractals and their uses : an alphabetic wordbook-index / Michael Frame, Benoit B. Mandelbrot -- Report of some field experiences. |
| Subject |
Fractals.
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| Added Author |
Frame, Michael.
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Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
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| Cover Title |
Fractals, graphics, & mathematics education |
| ISBN |
0883851695 |
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