Math 497 Winter 2002, Meeting #2
This class is based on Chapter 3 of the The Book of Numbers.
What do they count?
How big do they get?
Formula
What do they count?
Formula
What do they count?
What is it?
Why do choice numbers appear?
Where are the triangular numbers and tetrahedral numbers in the triangle.
Binomial expansion.
Powers of 2 can be written as binomial expansions.
Visualize the quadratic and cubic expansion with a square and a cube.
Lines divide the plane into how many regions?
Chords divide the disk into how many regions?
Make difference tables from data.
Turn tables into polynomials.