12:00 - 12:50 PM, Friday, February 28, Gildemeister 155
Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135.
Two Research Projects Birthed from
Curiosity, Recreation, and
Joy
Dr. aBa Mbirika
Univ. Wisconsin—Eau Claire
This talk will center around two undergraduate research projects born from recreational math topics. The first project emerged from a connection between the Fibonacci sequence modulo 10 and astrology. The second project arose from noticing the magical and mystic golden ratio appearing as an eigenvalue of a certain tridiagonal real symmetric matrix. A cute connection between the two topics will be revealed at the end of the talk.
