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Fractal dinner!
Much to my surprise, my mum has turned out to be a budding mathematician and for dinner on Christmas Eve we were presented with Romanesco Broccoli! I had forgotten what a beautiful vegetable it was (the last one I’d seen I had bought from Tesco for a lecture on fractals about 10 years ago). For anyone of a mathematical persuasion the broccoli (or cauliflower as I prefer) is one of Nature’s finest examples of a fractal, although it is usually it’s poor relation the humble cauliflower that is used as an everyday example (with fractal dimension approximately 2.88). Here it is pre-cooking:
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Christmas on Warwick University Maths Island
December 21, 2009
A freak snowstorm has hit the tropical Second Life island of the Warwick University Maths department (SLURL: http://tinyurl.com/56ykb2), conincidentally just in time for the Christmas break!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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