Design your Own Mandelbrot Set

Last Friday, a Facebook friend shared about a Mandelbrot set interactive application which might be useful to advanced mathematics students. The online app can be used to explore the Mandelbrot set. The user can change the colors and the number of iterations.  Images created with the app can also be saved as a png file — mine is shown below.

The Mandelbrot Set

For those who are not familiar with fractals, loosely speaking, they are some sort of patterns of similarity. I will not elaborate about it here because I am planning to write about it later.

Can you solve the hardest Sudoku puzzle yet?

Arto Inkala, a Finnish mathematician, claims to have created the most difficult Sudoku puzzle yet. According to Inkala, it took him three months to finish the construction of the puzzle.

sudoku

Can you solve this sudoku puzzle?

Sudoku is a number placement puzzle. The objective of the player is to fill a 9 x 9 grid with numbers from 1 to 9 so that each column, row, and block (3 x 3 sub grids) contains all the digits. The puzzle was popularized by the Japanese company Nikoli in 1986.

Source: Yahoo News

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