- BLOCK III -

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Lesson #

Date(s)

Paper and Presenter(s)

23

Nov. 15

Paper Presentation 0: Judy Holdener
Measuring the abundancy of integers,
by Richard Laatsch

 

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24

Nov. 17

Paper Presentation 1: Sam Tay
Fermat's Little Theorem: A Proof by Function Iteration,
by Lionel Levine

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~ ~ ~ NOVEMBER 20-28 ~ ~ THANKSGIVING BREAK ~ ~ ~

FINAL PAPERS DUE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
25
 Nov. 29

Paper Presentation 2: Sarah Schumacher
When is the Product of Two Oblong Numbers Another Oblong?
by Trygve Breiteig

Paper Presentation 3: Emily Neal
A Brief History of Factoring and Primality Testing B. C. (Before Computers)
by Richard Mollin

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26
 Dec. 1

Paper Presentation 4: Kate Moore
The Complex Sum of Divisors
by Robert Spira


Paper Presentation 5: Kayla Siebert
Prime Desert n-Tuplets,
by George W. Polites

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26.5

 Dec. 4

Paper Presentation 6: Henry Smith and Danny Miller
Taxicabs and the Sums of Two Cubes,
by Joseph Silverman


Paper Presentation 7: Tyler Dierke
Towers of Powers Modulo m,
by Robert J. MacG. Dawson

Presentations at 4:45pm on Sunday, December 4

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27
 Dec. 6

Paper Presentation 8: Jay Leach
Happy Numbers,
by ???

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28

 Dec. 8

Paper Presentation 9: Alex Beckwith and Nick Charriez
Shrinking the Period Lengths of Continued Fractions while still Capturing Convergents,
by Ed Burger, Jesse Gell-Redman, Ross Kravitz, Daniel Walton, Nicholas Yates

 

Take-home final distributed - Due Monday, Dec. 12 at 11:30am.

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