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- From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals,sci.math,sci.edu,misc.education,k12.ed.math
- Subject: Lauwerier's works
- Followup-To: sci.fractals
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 23:17:39 GMT
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- Summary: info requested on Dutch works
- Keywords: Lauwerier fractals
-
- This is a re-post. I'd really appreciate any and all pointers
- to summaries and/or translations of these works. Thanks.
-
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- I've enjoyed Hans Lauwerier's _Fractals: Endlessly Repeated
- Geometrical Figures_ (Princeton Univ. Press, 1991; originally
- published in Dutch by Aramith Uitgevers, Bloemendaal, 1987)
- off and on the last year, and I was hoping someone could tell
- me more about a couple of references he gives therein.
-
- Lauwerier, H.A. _Analyse met de microcomputer_. Epsilon
- uitgaven, 1987.
-
- Lauwerier, H.A. _Meetkunde met de microcomputer_. Epsilon
- uitgaven, 1987.
-
- At the risk of making a foolish mistake, I'll guess that these
- titles translate into _Analysis with the Microcomputer_ and
- _Geometry with the Microcomputer_, respectively. Of these works,
- Lauwerier says
-
- These volumes are aimed at use in schools. The emphasis
- is on making graphic representations, tracing figures in
- the plane, and projections of spatial bodies.
-
- My questions are:
-
- 1) Would someone care to comment on the content of these texts?
-
- 2) Have these texts been used in Dutch schools, and if so, with
- what success?
-
- 3) Do English translations exist?
-
- Thanks in advance,
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- Tom Scavo
- scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
-