Fractals

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, see as well here ...

Stoppard, Tom.  Arcadia.
   London: Faber & Faber, 1995.

http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/arcadia/index.html

http://www.sciam.com/0797issue/0797review1.html

http://www.cherwell.oxon.sch.uk/arcadia/outline0.htm

http://www.honors.unr.edu/~fenimore/wt202/arcadia.html

Stoppard's play, shuttling to and fro betwixt the
"present" (first performed 1993, at any rate) and the
early nineteenth century, incorporates a number of
elements of interest here: fractal geometry,
romaticism, landscaping, chaos theory, architecture,
the picturesque and the gothic, and so forth.  The
first link above in particular might be of some help
with the math.  See also, e.g. ...

Briggs, John. Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos.
   New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Accessible, and, I believe, still readily available
...

--- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> My son informs me that the new book "Flatterland" by
> Ian Stewart explains fractals in a way that even I
> can understand.  I'll have to give that book a try
> since I sure couldn't follow Judy's explanation.

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