A Mathematician's Perspective on Math, Faith, and Life
I have written before on the problem and solution of the problem of “Pythagorean Triples”. The problem, based on the Pythagorean theorem for right triangles, asks for all possible solutions to this equation which have all of whole numbers. Not just any right triangle works – for instance if then , which is definitely notContinue reading “Why Prove a Theorem Twice?”
This is the final post (at least for now) in a series on the Fibonacci numbers. We’ve gone through a proof of how to find an exact formula for all Fibonacci numbers, and how to find exact formulas for sequences of numbers that have a similar definition to the Fibonacci numbers. But, the fact thatContinue reading “Finding Patterns in the Fibonacci Sequence”
In this series of posts about the Fibonacci sequence , a very famous sequence of numbers within mathematics, we have just concluded showing how you can take the recursive formula (which uses previous values of to compute the next values) and turn that formula into an exact formula that can skip right over the previousContinue reading “Finding the Fibonacci Numbers: A Similar Formula”
This is the third post in a series about an exact formula for the Fibonacci numbers, , which are defined by the initial values and the recurrence relation . We have made a lot of progress towards our goal. We discovered a connection between , the golden ratio , and the Fibonacci sequence by findingContinue reading “Finding the Fibonacci Numbers: The Formula”
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Hi, I’m Will. I’m studying as a graduate student in math, and am also interested in theology, education, philosophy, science, and mental health. My goal here is to write defending the views I have on these subjects and to help interested readers learn more about these subjects.
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