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

Other author/creatorFrame, Michael.
Other author/creatorMandelbrot, Benoit B.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info[Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, ©2002.
Descriptionxiii, 206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Cover title Fractals, graphics, & mathematics education
Series MAA notes ; 58
MAA notes ; no. 58. ^A240125
Contents Some reasons for the effectiveness of fractals in mathematics education / by 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 / by Benoit Mandelbrot -- Teaching fractals and dynamical systems at the Hotchkiss school / by Melkana Brakalova & David Coughlin -- Reflecting on wada basins : some fractals with a twist / by Dane Camp -- Learning and teaching about fractals / by Donald M. Davis -- The fractal geometry of the Mandelbrot set: periods of the bulbs / by Robert L. Devaney -- Fractals : energizing the mathematics classroom / by Vicky Fegers & Mary Beth Johnson -- Other chaos games / by Sandy Fillebrown -- Creating and teaching undergraduate courses and seminars in fractal geometry : a personal experience / by Michel Lapidus -- Exploring fractal dimensions by experiment / by Ron Lewis -- Fractal themes at ever level / by Kenneth G. Monks -- Art and fractals : artistic explorations of natural self-similarity / by Brianna Murratti & Michael Frame -- Order and chaos, art and magic : a first college course in quantitiative reasoning based on fractals and chaos / by David Peak & Michael Frame -- A software driven undergraduate fractals course / by Douglas C. Ravenel -- The fractal ring from art to art through mathematics, finance, and the sciences / by Benoit B. Mandelbrot -- Panorama of fractals and their uses : an alphabeticas wordbook-index / by Michael Frame & Benoit Bp Mandelbrot -- Report of some field experiences.
Local noteLittle-330360--305131039047-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.
LCCN 2001097388
ISBN0883851695

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