Oh, so I never really said how the
math camp went. It was really cool. Some of the lessons were really interesting. The kids were a lot of fun, most of the time anyways.
And now, I have a large stack of used scratch paper.
I think scratch paper is an art. It is very chaotic, yet there are hidden patterns everywhere. It is at once simple yet complex. It is a glimpse of the human mind, frozen in time.
Let me show you some scraps.
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If you look closely, you might see the puppies and kittens. Also, base Fibonacci.
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Exactly what it looks like: a bunch of random circles.
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I am not actually sure that having an ellipsis full of sigmas is proper notation.
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If you try to guess what this is, you are doomed to fail. I think I was trying to draw a polyhedron?
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This one is actually very straightforward. It has to do with quadratic residues.
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Base Fibonacci returns! Now with arithmetic.
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This is an abstract drawing of something more concrete--namely, a cyclic string of binary digits.
And that's it for now. Hope you've enjoyed it.
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