Fractals for the Classroom: Part Two: Complex Systems and Mandelbrot Set

By Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Dietmar Saupe, Hartmut Jürgens

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461287588
• ISBN13: 9781461287582
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Fractals for the Classroom, Book I

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.

Chaos and fractals unleashed

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.