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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Food For Thought Seminar

Chris Bick

UCSD

A glimpse of chaos. Fractals, the Mandelbrot set, and complex dynamics.

Abstract:

Everybody has seen them: Computer generated images of fractals have become very popular during the 80s and can be found for example on math books written for a broad audience. But what is the actual mathematics behind these pictures? This will be a more or less formal introduction to iteration of holomorphic functions especially polynomial dynamics. Pictures and a movie included.

November 13, 2008

10:00 AM

AP&M B412

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