Publisher's Synopsis
This book not only contains interesting topics such as Barnsley fern, Newton fractal, 3n+1 conjecture, Monty Hall problem and Apollonian gasket, but also serious mathematics/algorithms---presented in a light way---such as Newton-Raphson method, bisection method, Gaussian quadrature, computing e and π, Markov chain, and Fast Fourier Transform. All the R programs included in this book had been tested.