Delta-K,  Feature Articles,  Volume 33, Issue 2

The Seeds of Tomorrow: Iterating Functions

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 33 Issue 2, June 1996

27 – 36

The Seeds of Tomorrow: Iterating Functions

J. Dale Burnett

The idea of something repeating itself is one of the strongest themes in mathematics. The idea lies at the heart of mathematics: the definition of the natural numbers 1, 2, 3 … .