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Colouring outside the lines

30 Oct 2017 Tushna Commissariat
Taken from the October 2017 issue of Physics World

Tushna Commissariat reviews Visions of Numberland by Alex Bellos and Edmund Harriss and Phases of Matter by Colm P Kelleher, Rodrigo E Guerra, Andrew D Hollingsworth and Paul M Chaikin

Photograph of the Collatz conjecture, from Visions of Numberland, coloured in by Tushna
Seaweed sequence: Tushna colours in the Collatz conjecture. (Courtesy: James Dacey)
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