USE Biography
VAUGHAN MCDONALD, Harvard junior studying Mathematics
Major: Mathematics College/Employer: Harvard Year of Graduation: 2020 |
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Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)M44: Geometry of Numbers in Splash Spring 2019 (Apr. 27, 2019)
The goal of this class is to prove an amazing fact called Lagrange's 4 Square Theorem: every positive integer can be written as the sum of 4 integer squares! Interestingly, the proof is geometric in nature, involving counting lattice points in a set with large enough volume. Students may also be introduced to concepts such as generalizations to higher powers or fewer squares.
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