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Tous.  Ken nee’eesih’inoo.  Neeyeiheihinoo heesou’sii’ii.

Hi!  My name is Ken.  I am studying math.

A couple things that interest me are fractals and cultural math.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

The equation Mandelbrot used to create his famous picture is $z_{n+1}=(z_n)^2+c$

http://www.amazon.com/Native-American-Mathematics-MIchael-Closs/dp/0292711859

This book mostly covers various number systems found among Native American tribes……one group had a base-8 number system!!!!

Grant’s Calc

The area of math that I have most enjoyed so far is Differential Calculus. When taking an early algebra class we would discover the slope of a line. I always thought that was cool at the time. However, being able to view a polynomial function on a graph and finding the slope of that line is much more gratifying.  Continue reading

Sam and DST

The area of math that I really like to study is called descriptive set theory. In calculus, you often use different types of sets like open sets and closed sets. You also use different types of functions like continuous and differentiable functions. In descriptive set theory, we study more complicated sorts of sets and functions. Continue reading

Sarah and the Fibonacci Sequence

My name is Sarah, and I’m a Secondary Math Education major. My favorite subcategory of math is the Fibonacci Sequence. This awesome set of numbers appears in the oddest places in mathematics, like in the Golden Ratio, talking about how trees branch, or sunflower seeds spiral in a flower. Continue reading