Beautiful fractals help solve ‘wiggly’ problems

Sunday, July 3, 2016 - 09:11 in Mathematics & Economics

When Harry Potter first went to Hogwarts, he caught his train from Kings Cross, platform 9¾. The idea of a platform between two whole numbers might seem impossible to imagine. However, for someone working with fractals in math, the challenge is not so different. Fractals are used to measure things between dimensions, as in something […]

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