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Title Fractals, graphics, and mathematics education / Michael Frame and Benoit B. Mandelbrot, editors ; foreword by Lynn Arthur Steen.

Imprint [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  514.742 F841 2002    ---  Available
Description xiii, 206 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Series MAA notes ; no. 58
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 -- 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 -- Software driven undergraduate fractals course / Douglas C. Ravenel -- 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.
Added Author Frame, Michael.
Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
ISBN 0883851695

 
    
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