Four Encounters With Sierpinski's Gasket

Event Detail

Event type: Lonseth Lecture
Date/Time: 05/14/1991-12:00   

Speaker info

Speaker: Ian Stewart, University of Warwick

Abstract:
Sierpinski's gasket is a fractal, obtained by repeatedly deleting the middle section of a triangle. It shows up in a number of different areas of mathematics, with surprising cross-connections. The talk will describe four occurrences of the gasket: 1. What Sierpinski originally invented it for; 2. Parity of binomial coefficients; 3. The Tower of Hanoi puzzle; 4. Michael Barnsley's Chaos Game.