Event Detail

Event Type: 
Lonseth Lecture
Date/Time: 
Tuesday, May 14, 1991 - 05:00

Speaker Info

Guest Speaker: 
Ian Stewart
Institution: 
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.