Splash Biography
KOREI KLEIN, I am a thoughtfull and curious person.
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Major: Art History College/Employer: University of Chicago Year of Graduation: 2011 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
I was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Sharon, a small suburb of Boston. I spent 9 years at the South Area Solomon Schecter Day School, and went to Milton Academy for High School. I'm now a rising third year student at the University of Chicago. I'm currently taking classes mostly in Mathematics. I've spent the past two years studying mostly Computer Science and Mathematics. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)M390: n-dimensional coordinates, fibonacci sequences and linear algebra in Splash! Fall 2009 (Oct. 03, 2009)
This course will present a few mathematical structures whose initial appearance may be deceptive.
First, we will talk about how to assign coordinates to points in space and why some ways of assigning coordinates are better than others.
Next, we will discuss sequences of numbers that are similar to the Fibonacci sequence (that's the one that goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,...).
Finally, using some very general ideas in linear algebra like linear dependence and span, we will see how assigning coordinates and discovering Fibonacci-like sequences are actually just two versions of the same problem.
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