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Article: Fractals: magical fun or revolutionary science?
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- Science News
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- March 21, 1987
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FRACTALS: MAGICAL FUN OR REUOLUTIONARY SCIENCE?
Richard F. Voss is a mathematicianwith the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. An energetic young man with a very good stage presence, he is always a delight to hear, especially when he comes equipped with amazing audiovisual effects--as he usually does. It's a little bit like a scientific Doug Henning show, except that the subject, which is fractals, has serious applications to scientific reasoning. Indeed the major point of Voss's presentation at the recent meeting in San Francisco of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers was that fractals are a ...