Computers are everywhere. They are in our phones, cars, and microwaves. Some people believe that computers are smarter than humans, but this a misconception as computers only do what humans tell them to do. A computer may be better at adding than you, but trust me you are smarter!  Software Developers and others tell computers what to do by writing programs, these are essentially list of instructions for the computer, we call these algorithms.  Code is what makes up the software on your phone

Beginning to Code at Any Age

In my last blog post on exploring math history through children’s books I reviewed three biographies of Ada Lovelace. Now it’s the gentleman’s turn: Fibonacci, Einstein, and Erdos. (Sorry I couldn’t get the umlaut over the o, it is pronounced air-dish.)   For this post I have read Odd Boy Out: young Albert Einstein by Don Brown, The Boy Who Loved Only Math: the improbable life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman and illustrated by LeUyen Pham and Blockhead: the life of Fibonacci written by

Math History Though Children's Books Part 2

Over this summer I participated in Google Summer of Code 2017 (GSOC).This was my second and final time participating. I was again coding for SAGE Mathematical Software System with Dr. Paul Fili and Dr. Ben Hutz as my advisors.  This year my project was titled “Expanding the functionality of Dynamical Systems". My goal was to implement  Well’s Algorithm, strengthen the numerical precision in canonical_height(), as well as implement reduced_form() for higher dimensions.  For the first part of

GSOC 2017 Final Post