MM#1: Lecture #2, 7:30pm, Monday 24 April 2000
Concepts of 1D iterations
- tour or the class website
- Step through the menu of this site (invisible/mm1)
- and also, www.visual-chaos.org
- sacred geometry (the silver section)
- ancient egyptian construction of the square root of 2
- also known as the vesica piscus (to bisect a line)
- the koenig-lemaray (KL) process
- recall the graph of a function
- a special case: the diagonal, or identity function
- vertigo-horrid construction
- fixed and periodic points
- where the graph meets the diagonal
- example of a 2-cycle (the red square)
- what do you mean, divination?
- fortune-telling (astrology, i ching, tarot)
- dean radin, the conscious universe
- rupert sheldrake, dogs that know when their owners...
Revised Tue 25 April 2000 by Ralph Abraham
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