Article 2M99H Denver airport, Weierstrass, and A&S

Denver airport, Weierstrass, and A&S

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Last night I was driving toward the Denver airport and the airport reminded me of the cover of Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions.

Here's the airport:

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And here's the book cover:

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I've written about the image on book cover before. Someone asked me what function it graphed and I decided it was probably the Weierstrass a function.

For more on Weierstrass' elliptic function and why I think that's what's on the cover of A&S, see this post.

Photo of Denver airport via Wikipedia.

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