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Come join us in learning about number sequences! We will start with a story about Leonardo Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, his often forgotten fundamental contributions to mathematics (do you know what they are?), and his ubiquitous sequence of Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …
We will also learn about other important sequences, such as perfect numbers, Mersenne primes, Fermat primes, and see how they are often related to each other in sometimes unexpected ways. They even make surprising appearances in other mathematical disciplines, for example Fermat primes play a key role in what Gauss discovered about construction of regular polygons.
If this sounds interesting, then this lecture is for you, regardless of your grade level. Parents are welcome too and everybody can ask questions! In our audience we mostly see students from grades 6-12, but it is not rare to see much younger aspiring mathematicians and scientists, including future winners of ISEF and other major competitions!
To hear about all that and much more, come join us at this free, no-registration-needed, event at UTD, on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, 2-4 PM, in the ECSS building, room 2.312 (note, this is a different room) For more information about how to find us, please see: https://metroplexmathcircle.wordpress.com/about/directions-and-times/
Our speaker, Dr. Branislav Kisačanin, is a frequent speaker at the Metroplex Math Circle and a faculty member at the AwesomeMath Summer Camps and at the new AwesomeMath Academy. He is also involved in science fair competitions at all levels, school to ISEF. He is a practicing computer scientist with great interest in teaching and writing about math, physics, and computer science.
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