Category Archives: Mathematics

Spring Has Sprung

Today is the vernal equinox. More exactly, the vernal equinox will occur about half an hour before midnight in Greenwich, England; or at about 4:30 PM PDT (my time zone). At the moment of the equinox, the sun’s position in … Continue reading

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XXIV

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The Mandelbrot Set—Part VI: Julia Sets

The Mandelbrot Set Series: This is the sixth part in a series on Mandelbrot set fractals. Up until now, we have looked at fractals that are generated by examining the limit behaviour of points on the complex plane when a … Continue reading

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XXIII

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All Roads…

One of the great joys of mathematics—and one of the things that I think is often lost in lower level math classes—is that problems, especially the interesting ones, rarely have a single solution. When a given question is asked, there … Continue reading

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XXII

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XXI

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XX

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XIX

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Monday Mandelbrot Madness XVIII

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