DYNAMICS IN DISGUISE

SOME CLASSICAL PROBLEMS IN NUMBER THEORY

By Conrad Wayne

Several beautiful results in number theory are connected to techniques and phenomena in dynamical systems. Dr. Wilkinson will describe some of these results and how high school students can discover these connections on their own. As a college professor, she looks a high school mathematics in a little different way than many of us do. This outlook may help us look at high school mathematics in a different way as well as ask questions of our students a bit differently.

Dr. Wilkinson is a graduate of Evanston Township High School. She received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Harvard and her PH.D from University of California, Berkley. After teaching for a year at Harvard, she returned to her “roots” and has been a full time professor at Northwestern since 1997.

Get a head start on the holiday season by joining fellow MMC members ( as well as some of her former mathematics teachers!) for an enlightening evening. Also, in carrying on with an MMC holiday tradition, chicken will be put on the “back burner” and broiled double thick cut strip steak will be the entrée.