Yang Hui

Triangle
What is Yang Hui's triangle?

What is so special about this triangle?

How is this triangle useful ?

What is Yang
Hui's triangle?

• It is an array of
numbers, the array's
shape is a triangle .
How to
construct this
array ?
What is so special about Yang Hui's
triangle ?

微观大象
Different
types of
• Algebraic patterns
• Geometrical patterns

patterns
Algebraic
patterns
Powers of
2
Powers of
11
Binomial
coefficien
t
Geometrica
l patterns
Triangular
numbers
•You and your friend would require one string/wire to communicate with each other.

• Now increase the number of friends conditioned that each friend will bring their
own cups and you have to bring their respective wires so that everyone can
communicate with each other without any problems.
Tetrahydro
n numbers
Fractals :
Sierpinski
Triangle
Why are these paterns useful

由表及里
Let's go back to
Sierpinski's
triangle
• What is the dimension of this
shape ?
• What is this shape ?
• How useful are these types of
shapes ?
What does • What is the dimension of a line , plane and a cube ?
dimension means? • What is the dimension of Sierpinski's triangle?
Line
Consider a line
Break the line in N many parts , and enlarge the N
parts by a factor of N , what do you observe ?
Square
Consider a line
Break the line in N^{2} many parts ,
and enlarge the N^{2} parts by a
factor of N , what do you observe ?
Cube
Consider a line
Break the line in N^{3} many parts , and enlarge the
N^{2} parts by a factor of N , what do you observe ?
The dimension is simply the exponent
of the number of self-similar pieces
with magnification factor N into which
the figure may be broken.

• Dimension = Log(number of self-similar

pieces)/log(magnification factor)
What is the dimension of
the Sierpinski triangle?
This Shape can break into 3^N parts with
magnification factor 2^{N}
• We found an object which has a FRANCTION dimension.
• We call all shapes with fraction dimension, FRACTALS.
• How useful are fractals ?
• How can we study fractals ?
• What does it mean to have a fractional dimension ?