Thursday, November 29, 2012

Week 14 Homework (28Nov12)

10.1:  1,3,5,11,13,15,27,29,37
10.2:  13,15,17,19,21

Due 05Dec12

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Week 12 homework (7Nov12)


9.5:  1,3,5,19,21,23,25,31,33
9.7:  11,13,17,19,51,53,55,57
9.8:  1,3,5,11,13,15,45,47,49

Due 14Nov12

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Golden Ratio

Last night I spoke about the golden ratio.  It comes about as one of the roots of x^2 -x -1 =0

Most of what I spoke about last night was forklore.  It looks close but isn't exact and what is math but exact. 

Here is some more information:

Defined:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

Myths:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_07.html