Fractals for the Classroom breaks new ground as it brings an exciting branch of mathematics into the classroom. The book is a collection of independent chapters on the major concepts related to the science and mathematics of fractals. Written at the mathematical level of an advanced secondary student, Fractals for the Classroom includes many fascinating insights for the classroom teacher and integrates illustrations from a wide variety of applications with an enjoyable text to help bring the concepts alive and make them understandable to the average reader. This book will have a tremendous impact upon teachers, students, and the mathematics education of the general public. With the forthcoming companion materials, including four books on strategic classroom activities and lessons with interactive computer software, this package will be unparalleled.
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Chaos and fractals unleashed,
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This review is from: Fractals for the Classroom: Part Two: Complex Systems and Mandelbrot Set (Hardcover)
If the words fractals, chaos and dynamical systems are attractive fixed points for your mind, go ahead. This is a book about this stuff. The three authors really unleash those topics, using numerous intriguing examples. The mathematical level is elementary. There is a good treatment both mathematical and heuristic of the discrete dynamical system generated by the logistic equation, this icon of the chaos and fractals theory. At each chapter's end there is a program written in old-fashioned Basic language, but the skeleton may be recycled in, say, Mathematica or Matlab.
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I was needing the book quickly and the seller sent it priority without charging me extra. Very Nice!! I used the book to do professional development with some high school teachers.
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For many, chaos theory already belongs to the greatest achievements in the natural sciences in this century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quadratic iterator, field lines land, generic parabola, super attractive parameters, tent transformation, graphical iteration, dense periodic points, pixel game, kneading operations, acoustic chaos, classical fractals, whole unit interval, essential square, critical orbit, chaos game, attractive fixed point, iterative behavior, repelling fixed point, fractal basin boundaries, iterated function systems, tangent bifurcation, prisoner set, tent function, quadratic transformation, homoclinic points Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Tan Lei, Recursive Structures, Game of Life, Cambridge University Press, Lecture Notes, World Scientific, Floris Takens, Growing Classical Fractals, Lord Rayleigh, Publications Mathematiques, The Beauty of Fractals, Bifurcations of Vector Fields, Growing Fractals, Nonlinear Oscillations, Stephen Smale, The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants New!
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For many, chaos theory already belongs to the greatest achievements in the natural sciences in this century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quadratic iterator, field lines land, generic parabola, super attractive parameters, tent transformation, graphical iteration, dense periodic points, pixel game, kneading operations, acoustic chaos, classical fractals, whole unit interval, essential square, critical orbit, chaos game, attractive fixed point, iterative behavior, repelling fixed point, fractal basin boundaries, iterated function systems, tangent bifurcation, prisoner set, tent function, quadratic transformation, homoclinic points Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Tan Lei, Recursive Structures, Game of Life, Cambridge University Press, Lecture Notes, World Scientific, Floris Takens, Growing Classical Fractals, Lord Rayleigh, Publications Mathematiques, The Beauty of Fractals, Bifurcations of Vector Fields, Growing Fractals, Nonlinear Oscillations, Stephen Smale, The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants New!
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- The Science of Fractal Images by Heinz-Otto Peitgen on 5 pages
- Directions in Chaos (World Scientific Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics) by B. L. Hao on 4 pages
- Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields (Applied Mathematical Sciences Vol. 42) by John Guckenheimer on page 278, page 294, and page 438
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot on page 33, page 418, and Back Matter
- Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press on page 307, page 353, and Back Matter
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- Chaos: A Mathematical Introduction (Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series) by John Banks on 9 pages
- Exploiting Mental Imagery with Computers in Mathematics Education (NATO ASI Series / Computer and Systems Sciences) by Rosamund Sutherland on page 81, page 189, and page 201
- Fractals for the Classroom: Strategic Activities Volume Three by Heinz-Otto Peitgen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 4
- Dynamical Systems with Applications using MATLAB by Stephen Lynch on page 80, page 141, and Back Matter
- Dynamical Systems with Applications using Maple by Stephen Lynch on page 265, page 312, and Back Matter
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