Dynamical Systems and Fractals

This is an announcement of a new interdisciplinary course at Oklahoma State University on symbolic and analytic dynamics, with an overview of fractal geometry.

Announcement: The course was completed in early May, 1996. The lecture notes run to about 175 pages when processed by LaTeX, but the complete outline was not filled in. We hope to enhance the chapters on real and complex iteration in subsequent iterations of this course, as well as add new topics. A special thanks to my students!. Their interaction was essential to the writing of the notes.

The only mathematical prerequisites are Calculus. Hopefully, this course will be accessible to as many students as possible who have interests in these emerging areas of natural science.

The course will be conducted in the computer classroom MS 203, and much use will be made of various programs, including FRACTINT, MAPLE, and some others, for demonstration purposes.

It is possible to arrange graduate credit (5000 level) for graduate students.

Course materials and outline will be added below as we develop the course:

If you want some more information, send mail to David Wright

David J. Wright (wrightd@math.okstate.edu)
Last modified: Thu Dec 11 20:35:56 CST 1997