Due by class time Tuesday, February 4
Note: if you do not yet have the textbooks, copies of both books should be available on reserve in the SLC library.
1. Read the online essay Finding Your Roots by the mathematician Steven Strogatz.
2. Read the following Chapters of The Computational Beauty of Nature, by Gary William Flake:
Chapter 2 (Number Systems and Infinity, pages 11-22)
Chapter 8 (The Mandelbrot Set and Julia Sets, pages 111-127)