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Slide 1The Maths of Castles and Fortifications: Symmetry in attack and defence Chris Budd Slide 2 Uncomfortable fact ….. A major feature of most civilisations has been…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Why does Rudolph have a shiny nose? A mathematical look at Christmas Chris Budd Slide 3 Can maths help Santa plan Christmas?? Slide 4 Santa’s problems How…
Slide 1 Texture Turk, 91 Slide 2 What is texture ? There is no accurate definition. It is often used to represent all the “details” in the image. (F.e, sometimes…
Slide 1 Dynamical Systems and Chaos Coarse-Graining in Time Low Dimensional Dynamical Systems Bifurcation Theory Saddle-Node, Intermittency, Pitchfork, Hopf Normal Forms…
Slide 1 Fractals Slide 2 What is Fractal? Not agreed upon the primary definitionNot agreed upon the primary definition Self-similar objectSelf-similar object Statistically…
Slide 1 The Universe: a sphere, a donut, or a fractal? Andrei Linde Andrei Linde Slide 2 Contents: From the Big Bang theory to Inflationary Cosmology and the theory of Dark…
Slide 1 Slide 2 To tessellate: to cover a plane with one or more shapes without overlaps or gaps Slide 3 A Regular Tessellation is when only one regular shape is used. A…