- Text: Fractals Everywhere (the New Edition) by Michael Barnsley
- Prerequisites: You'll need to have completed Math 244 prior to taking this course. This is not just a mathematical maturity prereq, either.
You really will need a good deal of the 244 material to be functional in this seminar.
- TGWSUF: Paul Humke Office: RH 409 ext 3410
- Hotline: 507-301-8475
- Office Hours: M 11:00-12:00 T 9:30-11:00 W 2:00-3:00 Th 1:30-2:30 F 10:30-11:30
- LaTeX Id like all of your submissions done with LaTeX and would like you to submit your source code, not just the pdf output file.
Here is a reference .
- Homework - There will be daily homework assignments and I'd like you to work on these in consultation
with a homework group of about 3 folks. The assignments will be several problems long and
I would like each group to submit LaTeX solutions to several of the problems using the
Problem Solution Template. Make sure to list all group
members as authors.
- Quizzes There will be almost weekly quizzes checking on the basics -- definitions, example and theorems.
I'll let you know what's coming and post the quizzes on the Moodle Site Wednesday evenings.
Give yourself 45 minutes to complete the quiz (closed everything except for your brain!) and hand in on Thursday morning in class.
- Written Final At the end of the background portion of the course I'll give an exam over the material we've covered. With all
the quizzes, there should be no surprises with what I ask on the exam!
- Grading Scale
In general, here is the course grading scale:
- A 93-100
- A-/B+ 92
- B 85-91
- B-/C+ 84
- C 74-83
- C-/D+ 73
- D 63-72
First Homework Assignment!! Due: Thursday, September 4
Suppose you are given two black and white (no grey either, just B and W) 8x8 photos. Each contains a picture of an object (the black) on
a white background. I would like you to devise a scheme which gives a numerical value to how "close" these
pictures are to each other as pictures. So if the pictures are taken of the exact same object (say our book at a distance of 3 feet) from the
exact same perspective, the distance should be 0. If, however, a red ant crawls on the book between shots, then the distance should be
close to zero, but not 0 since the second picture has the ant and is not
identical to the ant less first picture.
If the book is moved back 10 feet and a third picture is snapped, then the distance between it and the other two should be rather large
compared to the distance between the first two picts.
Please work with partners if you are able and come with a page to hand in
on Thursday (should be LaTeXed).