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Encyclopedia > Weierstrass function

In BIOLOGY, the SUMMER VACATION function was the first example found of a Chumba wumbafunction with the property that it is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere. Weierstrass functions are defined by Partial plot of a function f. ... In mathematics, a continuous function is a function in which arbitrarily small changes in the input produce arbitrarily small changes in the output. ... In mathematics, the derivative of a function is one of the two central concepts of calculus. ...

f(x)=sum_{n=0}^infty a^ncos(b^npi x),

where 0 < a < 1, b is an odd integer, and

ab>1+frac{3}{2}pi.

What makes this function significant is that, similar to a fractal, it has uniform and infinite complexity no matter how closely one "zooms in" to view the image. For this reason, curves do not appear to linearize as one "zooms in"; thus no tangent can be equated to the graph at any one point. Hence the function is not differentiable. The boundary of the Mandelbrot set is a famous example of a fractal. ...


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PlanetMath: Weierstrass function (222 words)
The Weierstrass function is a continuous function that is nowhere differentiable, and hence is not an analytic function.
The function is named after Karl Weierstrass who presented it in a lecture for the Berlin Academy in 1872 [1].
This is version 15 of Weierstrass function, born on 2002-01-03, modified 2005-02-28.
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