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Nondifferentiable Dancing

May 31, 2018

A jerky dancing stick figure names a move after the Weierstrass function, which is continuous but nowhere differentiable.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-05-31-nondifferentiable-dancing/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[Title] "NEW MOVE: THE WEIERSTRASS" — "I aspire to dance movements that are nowhere differentiable."

Topics
Calculus › DifferentiabilityCalculus › ContinuityFunctions › Pathological FunctionsAdvanced Math › Real AnalysisFunctions › Pathological Functions › Weierstrass FunctionMathematicians & Scientists › Karl Weierstrass
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CalculusCollege
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