Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Cool Silly Math
Perhaps some of you do not share the exact caliber of my excitement for Math, so maybe I can show you how cool it is. These are from my class called 'Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.' Aren't they nice? This one is called an iterated map.
Cool Math
Do a little thought experiment with this graph. Pretend that at about x = 0.5 the graph splits into 4 lines instead of 2. Now, the graph has fractals! Isn't that cool2 .
bifurcation
I have been busy recently applying to research opportunities for this summer1 in engineering and math. It's amazing how quickly the deadlines have come up. Two applications were due today, and while I have just barely finished my essays for them, I'm just not going to tell them that I attended Cal Poly Pomona for a year, so that I don't have to send late transcripts . . . this is too bad because I took some relevant math classes that year. In order to get transcripts from Cal Poly, I have to mail my request to them and wait for them to mail it to wherever I need it to go! I call that silliness in terms of deadlines!
The application for the research opportunity that is in the area that most interests me, scares me the most: it just asks for my GPA, a phrase for what kind of research I'm interested in and my SAT math and verbal scores! I want to send them an interest essay that's at least a page - I have several things I'd like to include. And I want my cool faculty to send them recommendations, but, they just want my SAT score. I don't even remember my SAT scores. They're from 2000 - that's 5 years ago. Oh well . . .
Pretty
So this is from a model of a pendulum that's a spring. After we turned in our reports, we found out that everyone had the wrong equations! Oops.
Eiffel Tower
Back to work time. :)
1It seems Shallowbrook is out this year :(, but Lassen is a possibility, depending on which research opportunity I get/accept.
2 I don't think this trick will work for my paper due Friday, however.
Cool Math
Do a little thought experiment with this graph. Pretend that at about x = 0.5 the graph splits into 4 lines instead of 2. Now, the graph has fractals! Isn't that cool2 .
bifurcation
I have been busy recently applying to research opportunities for this summer1 in engineering and math. It's amazing how quickly the deadlines have come up. Two applications were due today, and while I have just barely finished my essays for them, I'm just not going to tell them that I attended Cal Poly Pomona for a year, so that I don't have to send late transcripts . . . this is too bad because I took some relevant math classes that year. In order to get transcripts from Cal Poly, I have to mail my request to them and wait for them to mail it to wherever I need it to go! I call that silliness in terms of deadlines!
The application for the research opportunity that is in the area that most interests me, scares me the most: it just asks for my GPA, a phrase for what kind of research I'm interested in and my SAT math and verbal scores! I want to send them an interest essay that's at least a page - I have several things I'd like to include. And I want my cool faculty to send them recommendations, but, they just want my SAT score. I don't even remember my SAT scores. They're from 2000 - that's 5 years ago. Oh well . . .
Pretty
So this is from a model of a pendulum that's a spring. After we turned in our reports, we found out that everyone had the wrong equations! Oops.
Eiffel Tower
Back to work time. :)
1It seems Shallowbrook is out this year :(, but Lassen is a possibility, depending on which research opportunity I get/accept.
2 I don't think this trick will work for my paper due Friday, however.
