Subjects Covered:

• Number Contemplation
  
  
• Infinity
  
  
• Geometric Gems
  
  
• Contortions of Space
  
  
• Chaos and Fractals
  
  
• Risky Business
  
  
• Other Links
  
  
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Image courtesy of Clint Sprott, Wisconsin Physics Department
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals.htm

Course Description:

This is a seminar for first-year students that will be taught in the fall of 2002. The course will discuss fundamental questions about infinity, finding numerical patterns in nature, symmetry, making and breaking codes, knots and links, chaos and fractals, and surprising chance occurrences. The textbook is "The Heart of Mathematics:An invitation to effective thinking" by Burger and Starbird. Visit www.heartofmath.com for more information on the text.