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Monday, January 20, 2014

You can use graphs to help play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"

A graph is used to show relationships between different objects.  In this case, it shows two actors as being connected if they have appeared in a movie together.  Can you always reach Kevin Bacon is six steps or less?



You can study how to teach a computer to do calculus

 This demonstration compares several different numerical methods for computing the area under a curve.



Thursday, January 16, 2014

You get to study about how internet encryption works

How is it that everyone can send information to the bank, but only the bank can read it?


More on Fibonacci

You know what Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio look like in nature from the last post.  Now what are those numbers, and why are they so special?


You study the golden ratio.

This is a great video that helps to visualize one of the fundamental constants of mathematics.


You get to study infinity.

Think you know about infinity?  Did you know that there are different sizes of infinity?


You could get to visit Antarctica.

I know Ken.  He's taken many undergraduate students on trips to the South Pole.