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Monster Story

May 25, 2017

A storyteller frightens campers with a function that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere, like the Weierstrass function.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-05-25-monster-story/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Storyteller (at a campfire): "It was continuous everywhere... and differentiable NOWHERE!"

[Caption] "Math Monster Stories"

Topics
Calculus › ContinuityCalculus › DifferentiabilityAdvanced Math › Real AnalysisFunctions › Pathological FunctionsFunctions › Pathological Functions › Weierstrass Function
Level
CalculusCollege
Themes
History & HolidaysLiterature & Myth