These minutes were taken by
Boanne MacGregor,
secretary
Meeting called to order 6:10
PM
Professor Frohman generously
came to share his insight into how to be a mathematician: work hard
and be earnest. He dscribed his undergraduate years of reading
math book 24/7 and “being too busy learning to get an education.”
(In the process he gave us all an outstanding quotation.)
He also enlightened us with
a fascinating proof concerning ellipses.
Insert short break for secretary
to stuff her face with food.
Let it be noted that donations
for πzza (or should it be πizza?) are welcome.
Announcement: math club is
now officially recognized as a student organization, meaning that we
may get money and we can’t chalk the sidewalk.
Member of whose
name I am sadly ignorant
Aba continued that journey
with the 1+1/1+1/1+1/1+…. sequence and a 1 + 1/N proof that totally
made my week. (Forgive lack of parentheses and math notation software.
That is not supposed to look like “1 + 1 + 1
+ 1…” Just trust me it was cool even if Microsoft Word can’t
do it justice.)
www.beautyanalysis.com. ßDon’t ask; just go there.
Members contemplated some exciting
possibilities for the club website. If n = number of photos
on the site and m = number of photos that Aba wants on the site, then
m>n and m/n = undefined (or infinity, because apparently what they’ve
been telling us naive undergrads is false, and you really can divide
by zero and get infinity in some cases).
Leftover food was kindly donated
to Colin’s class’s review session tomorrow (yay!).
Meeting adjourned approximately
7-something-ish.