Turtle Escapes the Plane: Some Advanced Turtle Geometry

dc.creator	diSessa, Andy
dc.date	2004-10-01T20:37:05Z
dc.date	2004-10-01T20:37:05Z
dc.date	1975-12-01
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-09T02:41:19Z
dc.date.available	2013-10-09T02:41:19Z
dc.date.issued	2013-10-09
dc.identifier	AIM-348
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5793
dc.identifier.uri	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description	Since the LOGO Turtle took his first step he has been mathematically confined to running around on flat surfaces. Fortunately the physically intuitive, procedurally oriented nature of the Turtle which makes him a powerful explorer in the plane is equally, if not more apparent when he is liberated to tread curved surfaces. This paper is aimed roughly at the High School level. Yet because it is built on intuition and physical action rather than formalism, it can reach such "graduate school" mathematical ideas as geodesics, Gaussian Curvature, and topological invariants as expressed in the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.
dc.format	38 p.
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dc.format	application/postscript
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en_US
dc.relation	AIM-348
dc.title	Turtle Escapes the Plane: Some Advanced Turtle Geometry

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