CS145: Topics for the Week of Mar 29, 2010

• Begin Lab 8: Exploring Complex Numbers. This is one week from Monday.

• Complex and Imaginary Numbers:

  • Quadratic and Cubic equations
  • People: Tartaglia, Cardano, Bombelli, ...
  • What is i?
  • What is a complex number?
  • Applications: physics, engineering, ...
  • Complex artithmetic
  • Intuition: What is their behavior? See Processing.
  • Exercises from lab.

• Links:

  • Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
  • Cubic Equations
  • Why Complex Numbers
  • Wikipedia
  • Wolfram MathWorld
  • Barnsley fern
  • Iterated Function System (and fern)