User:Pweck1

From Math Images

1 About Me
2 Current pages
3 Potential Research
4 Contact Info

About Me

My name is Peter Weck. I'm from Illinois, and am currently a rising sophomore at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. I plan to major in either physics, philosophy, or both. I also love math, and this summer I'll be staying at college to write pages for the Math Images Project.

Current pages

Here's an example of computer model exhibiting self-organized criticality created by Claudio Rocchini. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_fire_model.gif

Finishing up the Tesseract page.
Creating a field page on dynamical systems
Working on a helper page about strange attractors.
Creating a page about Russell's Antinomy

Potential Research

Here are a couple of research interests/ideas which I would like to explore in future pages:

Some math topics from chaos theory and/or complexity science, maybe the math behind self-organized criticality if it is not way over my head. There are lots of cool visuals and animations that could be used in these areas.
Maybe the Traveling Salesman Problem. The problem consists of a salesman who needs to visit x number of cities. His boss wants him to minimize travel costs. What's the shortest route? It turns out to be practically impossible to analytically solve as x gets above a few dozen or so.
Adding to the helper page on the Completing the Square method for solving quadratics.