most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-22T21:26:51Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/26141 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106135/visualizing-the-l-adic-fractal-in-the-partition-function-pn Jukka Kangas 2012-09-01T21:01:19Z 2012-09-02T01:56:34Z

<p>This page <a href="http://www.aimath.org/news/partition/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aimath.org/news/partition/</a> and this youtube lecture <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj4FozCSg8g" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj4FozCSg8g</a> speak of a fractal in the values of the partition function p(n).</p> <blockquote> <p>"We prove that partition numbers are 'fractal' for every prime."</p> </blockquote> <p>The idea of fractal to me has very visual connotations, so I was wondering if there was a way to visualize the fractals of the partition function somehow. Do they make a pretty 2d-image if formatted cleverly?</p>