Conjecture & Proof

A Summer Seminar Series for Young Adult Math Geeks

Summer, 2006
Formal Logic: June 12th - June 16th
Number Theory: June 19th - June 23rd
Geometry: July 25th - July 29th
TBA: July 31st - August 4th

9am to 2pm with a one hour lunch.
Santa Rosa

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 twelve 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 in groups 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 three 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.

What is the TBA course?

If it is attended by students who all have not taken one of the earlier three courses, then it will be one of those courses. If all the students attending have an earlier course in common, then it will be a continuation of that course. Otherwise it will be probability and combinatorics.

Where:

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?

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. 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.

For more information contact me via e-mail (tutor@vzvz.org) or phone (707-360-8814).