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...McMullen says his work in complex dynamics has lately turned his research in the direction of knot theory--an area that at first seemed unrelated to fractals and chaos...
...look at the gallery on McMullen's web page-http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery.html-you can find an array of graphics generated by computer programs that McMullen has written...
...these graphics forms the basis for a new solution of fifth degree polynomial equations, which grew out of McMullen's thesis research as a graduate student...
...McMullen says that the solution involves iterating a dynamical system on a sphere--more reliable than "Newton's method"--to get closer and closer approximations...
After graduating with highest honors in mathematics from Williams College, McMullen studied at Cambridge University and then earned a doctorate in mathematics from Harvard...