Vol. 8 No 7 - Pi Mu Epsilon
Vol. 8 No 7 - Pi Mu Epsilon
Vol. 8 No 7 - Pi Mu Epsilon
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FRACTALS:<br />
MATHEMATICAL MONSTERS<br />
LC<br />
PI MU EPSILON JOURNAL<br />
THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION<br />
OF THE HONORARY MATHEMATICAL FRATERNITY<br />
EDITOR<br />
Joseph D.E. Konhauser<br />
ASSOCIATE EDITOR<br />
Clayton W. Dodge<br />
OFFICERS OF THE FRATERNITY<br />
President: Eileen L. Poiani, Saint Peter's College<br />
President-Elect: David W. Ballew, Western Illinois University<br />
Secretary-Treasurer: Robert M. Woodside, East Carolina University<br />
Past-President: Milton D. Cox, Miami University<br />
COUNCILORS<br />
Robert C. Eslinger, Hendrix College<br />
J. Douglas Faires, Youngstown State University<br />
Richard A. Good, University of Maryland<br />
Richard L. Poss, St. <strong>No</strong>rbert College<br />
Editorial correspondence, including books tor review, chapter reports, news items and manuscripts<br />
two copies) should be mailed to EDITOR. PI MU EPSILON JOURNAL, Mathematics and Computer<br />
ience De~artment. Macalester Colleoe. St. Paul. MN 55105. Students submittina manuscrints are<br />
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are requested to provide their affiliation, academic or otherwise.<br />
Problems for solution and solutions to problems should be mailed direct1 to the PROBLEM EDITOR.<br />
Puzzle proposals and puzzle solutions should be mailed to the EDITOR.<br />
The PI MU EPSILON JOURNAL is published at Macatester College twice a ear Fall and Spring.<br />
One volume consists of five years (10 issues) beginning with the Fall 19x4 or l%ll I& issue, starting<br />
in 1949. For rates, see inside back cover.<br />
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i.6 tfw.e? This general question has stumped mathe-<br />
maticians for centuries; the quest to find the<br />
geometric theory that<br />
actually describes all of the physical world (if such a theory exists)<br />
has as its newest contender, fractal geometry.<br />
Originally an attempt to<br />
explain "pathological" (not well-behaved) functions, fractal geometry<br />
seems to describe common properties of most physical phenomena.<br />
This<br />
paper is intended as an introduction to the basic concepts of fractal<br />
geometry and several of its applications.<br />
Although fractal geometry may<br />
not be %geometric theory y it certainly appears to be the most effec-<br />
tive means of taming the ultimate monster -- the universe.<br />
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