MATC Math Club presents “The Golden Ratio”
March 7, 2008 | Editor| March 13, 2008 | ||
| 3:30 pm |
“The Golden Ratio” is the title of MATC Math Club’s next presentation. The lecture by Professor John A. Frohliger of St. Norbert College, will be held on March 13 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 321 at Truax.
Originally, the Golden Ratio was used to describe a relationship between the sides of a particular type of rectangle. Like many concepts, however, the ratio may have started in one corner of mathematics but it branched out to others. Professor Frohliger will look at the ratio in its original definition and discover how it can be found in other areas of math including, not only geometry, but sequences and even peg-jumping puzzles.
Professor Frohliger has been an associate professor of mathematics at St. Norbert College since 1983. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He has served as the Wisconsin coordinator of the American High School Mathematics Examination (AHSME), 1987-92, the Chair of the Wisconsin Section of the MAA 1998-1999 and a reader for the AP calculus exam since 2000.
For more information on this lecture and other upcoming Math Club events, please see the Math Club website.
