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MEGAN CUTROFELLO, Caltech student studying pure math




Major: Mathematics

College: Caltech

Year of Graduation: 2013

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I've been doing math for fun since I was two or three, and then after my sophomore year of high school I went to the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, which was an amazing experience and made me fall in love with math even more; I then returned after my junior year. I play violin, fold origami, and enjoy science-fiction television shows and most genres of music. I also really, really, really love playing Set.



Past Classes

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The Mathematics of Set in Splash! Fall 2009
Set is a game of visual perception involving a deck of eighty-one unique cards that can be played by people with little or no mathematical background, but the game can also be thought of as a collection of $$3^4$$ objects that can be used to prove things about the game. The class will cover an introduction to modular arithmetic, a proof of why there must be a set given any 21 cards of an 81-card deck, and, assuming time permits, exposure to a few variations of the game and proofs regarding them.