Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!glenn From: glenn@ncoast.UUCP (Glen Norris h2280589) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Chaos - (nf) Message-ID: <272@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 23:09:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.272 Posted: Fri Aug 17 23:09:14 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 03:48:51 EDT References: <252@cubsvax.UUCP> <28200040@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 17 I will half answer Mike's question by mentioning the word 'Fractal'. Now does this intrigue anyone here in .math? The word was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in studying natural things thought to be chaotic. I've read an interview with him in Omni and another pictoral of his computer graphics in an earlier edition. I know hardly anything about the critters except the rules layed out for them which include things like- they have an infinite length, their own structure is a made of their own structure (!), and the mathematical representations have something to do with fractional exponents. If anyone could tell me more about fractals I'd sure love to hear it. Sounds like the kind of thing we could really get into. Glen Norris ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!gle[n,nn]