BATMATH
Bay Area Teachers and Mathematicians
Math Teachers’ Circles
AIM Math Teachers’ Circle – San Jose
Monterey County Math Teachers’ Circle
San Francisco Math Teachers’ Circle
Wine Country Math Teachers’ Circle
AIM Math Teachers’ Circle – Stanford
Morgan Hill Math Teachers’ Circle
San Joaquin Math Teachers’ Circle
Hollister Math Teachers' Circle
East Bay Math Teachers’ Circle
San Benito County Math Talks
Santa Cruz Math Teachers’ Circle
San Benito County Office of Education
460 5th St, Hollister, CA 95023
Sonoma County Office of Education
5340 Skylane Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Sonoma State University
1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
MBAMP - Math Department UC Santa Cruz
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
San Joaquin County Office of Education
2922 Transworld Dr, Stockton, CA 95206
Proof School
555 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Barrett Elementary Schoool
895 Barrett Ave, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Stanley Middle School library
3455 School St, Lafayette, CA 94549
CSU East Bay
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd, Hayward, CA 94542
American Institute of Mathematics
600 E Brokaw Rd, San Jose, CA 95112
Nora Suppes Hall 103
224 Panama St, Stanford, CA 94305
CSU Monterey Bay
Session leader: Brian Conrad
Session topic: Pythagorean Triples and Conics
Among the solutions to the Pythagorean equation in whole numbers, some examples such as (3,4,5) and (5,12,13) are generally familiar (and perhaps (8,15,17) is to a lesser extent). Are there infinitely many such triples if we disregard the operation of scaling (e.g., creating (6,8,10) from (3,4,5))? The answer is affirmative in a definitive way: there is a nifty explicit formula that generates all such examples in terms of 2 parameters.
But much more remarkable than the purely algebraic fact of such a formula is that it has an elegant geometric explanation that is the tip of the iceberg on getting geometric insight into variations of the Pythagorean equation (involving ellipses and hyperbolas). This will provide a hands-on introduction to some basic ideas in the fascinating subject of algebraic geometry.
Welcome to our fourth meeting! Facilitator TBA
Session leader: Brian Conrad
Session topic: Pythagorean Triples and Conics
Among the solutions to the Pythagorean equation in whole numbers, some examples such as (3,4,5) and (5,12,13) are generally familiar (and perhaps (8,15,17) is to a lesser extent). Are there infinitely many such triples if we disregard the operation of scaling (e.g., creating (6,8,10) from (3,4,5))? The answer is affirmative in a definitive way: there is a nifty explicit formula that generates all such examples in terms of 2 parameters.
But much more remarkable than the purely algebraic fact of such a formula is that it has an elegant geometric explanation that is the tip of the iceberg on getting geometric insight into variations of the Pythagorean equation (involving ellipses and hyperbolas). This will provide a hands-on introduction to some basic ideas in the fascinating subject of algebraic geometry.
Welcome to our fifth meeting! Facilitator TBA.
Session leader: Pedro Morales
Session topic: TBA
Session leader: Pedro Morales
Session topic: TBA
Welcome to our sixth meeting! Facilitator TBA.
Session leader: Nicolette Meshkat
Session topic: TBA