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Math 320 Page
This page contains information relevant to Dr. Monks's Math 320 (Chaos and
Fractals) course, Spring term 2006.
- Course Syllabus: Office hours, phone numbers, grading
policy, etc.
- Homework Assignments: Check here frequently for updated
homework assignments.
- Topics - that we might cover in the course
- Lecture notes - some definitions and theorems
for quick reference and use in lecture (also a black
and white version is available)
- Lecture Examples - a Maple worksheet
that I use in lecture to illustrate the concepts defined in the lecture
notes
- Proof Shortcuts - interesting ways to
reduce your cooking time
- Proof Strategies - some strategies for
approaching your proofs
- Proof Recipes - delightful recipes for
whipping up your own tasty proofs, by Chef Ken Monks
- Virtual Graph Paper - a page
providing some graph paper for use in the course
- Links to Fractal software - including
Monks's Famous Maple Chaos Library and other cool stuff
- Wall
Street - an article by Benoit Mandelbrot about applications of fractals
to financial modelling
- Teaching Fractals at the
middle school level - a nice web site by Cynthia Lanius
- Portable Chaos V 3.30 - save
this file to your disk (by RIGHT CLICKING the
link and choosing "Save Target As.." from the menu) and type read
"yourfilename"; in Maple to
load the program. For example if you save it to a floppy disk in drive
a: with the filename chaos
you would type read
"a:\\chaos"; in
Maple to load the program. Note that the filename has to be surrounded with
double quotes and that all backslashes must be doubled up in the file name.
- Chaos Help File -
in Maple Worksheet format.
- Cellebration -
impressive cellular automata program by Mirek Wojtowicz
- Life32 -
impressive cellular automata program by Johan Bontes (you can download
it here)
- WIRIS - an impressive online
math calculator for those sad days when you don't have access to Maple or a
TI-89
2006 Fractal Contest
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