RecordNumber
3895
Author
Spector, Donald
Crop_Body
Donald Spector
Title of Article
Visualizing (Number Theoretic) Functions with Portraits
Title Of Journal
Bridges
Publication Year
2020
Abstract
I offer a way to determine properties of mathematical functions through a new visualization method that takes
advantage of human perception of images. Since the digitization of images turns images into arrays of numbers, one
can apply mathematical functions to images on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Thanks to the pattern recognition skills of
humans, the form of the transformed images can give ready insight into the behavior of those mathematical functions.
I explain the method and give some examples here, with a particular focus on number theoretic functions.