February 03, 2004
Les fonctions rationelles
The fractal structure of a tree is evidenced by self-similarity. A branch looks like a smaller tree, but cannot compare with the image of the whole against the evening sky. Nature is a mathematician beyond reckoning, and few of us have learned to see into the rational functions woven into the world around us.
Happy birthday, Gaston Julia.
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