The Math Class: Mandelbrot's fractal

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mandelbrot's fractal

Here you are the video we saw at class yesterday. If you want to know more about fractals, you can visit this web and this one. In this one you can generate some fractals just changing some numbers in a formula. Enjoy yourselves.

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Guess Who- CLUES

1st Clue (10 points): In his/her family there was a prominent mathematician.
2nd Clue (9 points): He/She studied in an European University.
3rd Clue (8 points): Before engaging with math, he/she learned english and french to teach languages.
4th Clue (7 points): At the beginning he/she wasn´t allowed to teach at the University.
5th Clue (6 points): He/She met Einstein.
6th Clue (5 points): She/He made groundbreaking contributions to Algebra.
7th Clue (4 points): D. H. was one of his/her teachers.
8th Clue (3 points): She/He had to abandon her/his country due to the Nazis.
9th Clue (2 points): She died due to complications from abdominal surgery.
10th Clue (1 point): She stated the Theory of Ideals in Ring Domains.

Prominent Mathematicians

Pythagoras (VI BC)
Thales of Miletus (VII BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Euclid of Alexandria (III BC)
Archimedes (287-212 BC)
Apollonius of Perga (262-180 BC)
Diophantus of Alexandria (250 BC)
Hypatia of Alexandria (370)
Al-Jwarismi, Muhamed Ibn Musa
(780-850)
Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965-1039)
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980-1037)
Fibonacci, Leonardo of Pisa (1175-1240)
Pacioli, Luca (1450-1510)
Scipione del Ferro (1456-1526)
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
Tartaglia (e. 1499-1557)
Cardano, Gerolamo (1501-1576)
Galileo, Galilei (1564-1642)
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1665)
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Bernoulli, Jacob (1654-1705)
Bernoulli, John (1667-1748)
Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)
Bernoulli, Nicolas (1695-1726)
Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
Lagrange, J.L. (1736-1813)
Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818)
Laplace, P.S. (1749-1827)
Ruffini, Paolo (1765-1822)
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
Vallejo, José Mariano (1779-1846)
Bolzano, Bernard (1781-1848)
Cauchy, Agustin Louis (1789-1857)
Lovachevski, Nikolai (1792-1856)
Kovalskia, Sonia (1856-1891)
Galois, Evariste (1811-1832) Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm (1815-1897)
Lovelace, Ada Augusta (1815-1852)
Riemann, G.F.Bernhard (1826-1866)
Echegaray, José (1832-1916)
Cantor, George (1845-1918)
García de Galdeano, Zoel (1846-1924)
Torroja, Eduardo (1847-1918)
Poincare, Henri (1854-1912) Peano,Giuseppe (1858-1932)
Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
Noether, Emmy (1882-1935)
Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920)
Rey Pastor, Julio (1888-1962)
Puig Adam, Pedro (1900-1960)
Castelnuovo, Enma
Sieiro, Julio
Calderón, Juana M.
Vera, Antonio Óscar

Guess Who- Rules

Your challenge will be to guess the name of a prominent mathematician.

The rules of the game are the following:
1. A total of 10 clues will be posted, one at a time, by the teachers on the blog.
2. If you guess who it is after the first clue, you’ll be awarded with 10 points.
3. One point will be taken away after each new clue.
4. Whenever you have the answer, you’ll post it on the blog. Don’t forget to post the reasons that made you take that guess.
5. Later in the game you can always change your mind. However, a 3 point penalty will apply each time you do so.
6. If you take a guess and at the end of the game it turns out to be wrong, another 3 point penalty will apply.
7. If you are not sure, you don’t have to take a guess.
8. Whenever you have 8 points, they can be exchanged for 0.5 points in the term. In order for this to apply, you must submit also a short biography of the mathematicians seen in the game.
9. If less than 3 students are right, the winners will get a bonus of 2 points. If there are between 3 and 5 students, they will get a bonus of 1 point. If more than 5 students get the right answer, no bonus will apply.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mandelbrot's fractal

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