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Fractal Like Snowflakes Generated By Non-Contractive Function Systems, William H. Kelly Iii
Fractal Like Snowflakes Generated By Non-Contractive Function Systems, William H. Kelly Iii
LSU Master's Theses
At the heart of this thesis is the examination of a non-contractive iterative function system T on the Hausdorff metric space of all compact subset of ℝ . Despite the absence of an 2 attracting fixed point, an examination reveals the appearance of fractal-like shapes (snowflakes) when applying the Barnsley’ random walk method to study the iterative sequence ��n(0) (�� ∈ ℕ) for �� = ��1 ∪ ��2 ∪ ��3, where ��1(��) = ����, ��2(��) = ���� + ��, and ��3(��) = ���� - ��, and �� = …
Supporting The Algebra I Curriculum With An Introduction To Computational Thinking Course, Michelle M. Laskowski
Supporting The Algebra I Curriculum With An Introduction To Computational Thinking Course, Michelle M. Laskowski
LSU Master's Theses
The Louisiana Workforce Commission predicts a 33.6% increase in computer science and mathematical occupations by 2022 and the Bureau of Labor Statistics foresees a 16% increase in computer scientists from 2018-2028. Despite these opportunities for job and financial security, the number of Louisiana students enrolled in a nationally accredited computing course is less than 1%, compared to national leaders California and Texas which have 3% and 3.8% of students respectively. Furthermore, the international assessments of mathematical literacy, PISA and TIMMS, both report American students continue to fall further behind their international peers in mathematics achievement.
This thesis rejects these statistics …