From: Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sun, February 27, 2011 12:51:53 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Newbie intro/bio On 2/21/11, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
... There are also finite fields of arbitrary degree, though I don't know how you'd talk about convergence in a finite field. You could color the points by their period under the update function, I suppose. --
p-adic numbers & analysis --- (very) brief intros at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_analysis http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ajb/dvi-ps/padicnotes.pdf WFL _______________________________________________ Watch out here -- p-adic fields are characteristic zero, not characteristic p, and thus are necessarily infinite. -- Gene