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Title Page Prologue |
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1. Creating the images |
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Turtle graphics; Programming languages |
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2. How long is a piece of string? |
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Koch Island; Perimeter |
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3. Infinite coastline |
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Minkowski Island; Area, perimeter, isoperimetric problem |
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4. Tale of the dragon |
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Dragon curve; Experiment, conjecture, proof |
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5. How many holes has a sieve? |
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Sierpinski Sieve; Pascal's triangle, binomials, modulus |
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6. A Mad Hatter's three party |
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Ternary tree; Number base |
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7. A meeting of squares |
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Pythagorean Trees; Pythagoras Theorem, Triples |
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8. Blurred dimensions |
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Peano Curve; Dimension |
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9. A magic carpet ride |
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Sierpinski Carpet, Menger Sponge; Induction, recursion |
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10. The attraction of attractors |
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Sierpinski Sieve, attractors, IFS; Limits, mappings |
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11. Predictable dice |
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Sierpinski Sieve IFS; Probability, random numbers, IFS |
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12. Endless complexity |
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Mandelbrot Set; Complex numbers |
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13. A catalogue of chaos |
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Julia Sets; Coordinate systems, more complex numbers |