The Real Euclidean Geometry
A Summer Seminar for Young Adult Math Geeks
Summer, 2007
June 4th - June 8th
10am to 3pm with a one hour lunch.
Downtown Sebastapol, CA
Further Information
How to apply:
Show this to your parents and see if they are up for sending you. See
application checklist for the steps. Send in a $50 deposit with your application.
This money will only be cashed if you get in the program. If the course is cancelled
then the money will be refunded, but not for any other reason.
Class Size and Shape:
The class size is capped at eight students, but most likely will be around five
students. It will be two hours in the morning, and hour break for lunch, and
then two hours in the afternoon. Half the class will be lecture and the other
half will be working on difficult mathematical problems. There will be some
homework and a take-home final exam at the end of the course.
Assessment:
Upon receipt of the final exam by mail or hand delivery, I will grade it and
write an evaluation of the student. The possible grades are A or Incomplete.
Acceptance policy:
I will tell you whether you got in two days after your application materials
arrive. It is rolling admission, meaning first-come, first-served. Admission
is determined by whether you can and want do the work and whether you would
be too disruptive to others.
Course Cancellation Policy:
The individual courses will be cancelled if fewer than four students enroll.
Cost:
Tuition is a sliding scale of 100 to 200 dollars for each of the week seminars,
i.e. twenty hours, of direct instruction. Some financial aid is available. All
supplies are included except lunch, writing implements and notebook paper.
Where:
In a parent's home in downtown Sebastopol. I am working on finding the specific
venue, but it will be some community center in the Santa Rosa area with a
whiteboard and chairs.
I can't do any of the full course, or I want to pursue a single course beyond
the week, or...
I can happily do private tutoring, or small group tutoring, on this material.
Contact me to work out further details and arrangements.
Who is teaching?
Who is teaching? Luke Weisman Miratrix has been a teacher for the last seven
years. He has primarily taught in independent college-prep schools as the
upper level mathematics and computer science teacher. Currently he is working
on a PhD in Mathematics Education at UC Berkeley, CA. Before embarking on
teaching, he attended Reed College, Caltech University, and M.I.T., ending
up with a BA in Mathematics, a BS in Electrical Engineering, and a MS in Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is continually preoccupied with the
beauty of abstract thought, algorithm design, and how to teach those things.
Teaching, to him, is the act of showing something beautiful to one's students
and having them gain from it. His students, his colleagues, and his students'
parents say of him that he is passionate in the classroom, explains things
in myriad ways, makes things interesting, and cares deeply about how his students
are doing. When he is not teaching he writes, designs games, or takes courses
in various things that interest him.
Contact me via e-mail
(conjecture@vzvz.org) or phone (510-735-7635).