ESP Biography
WEIDONG SHAO, Stanford MS student in Computational Mathematics
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Major: ICME College: Stanford University Year of Graduation: G |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Weidong Shao is a software engineer at Google. He is a part-time MS student in Computational Mathematics. He received MSEE from University of Maryland and BS degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Past Classes(Look at the class archive for more.)Pythagorean Theorem: Several Interesting Proofs and Facts in Splash! Fall 2008
In this session, we will revisit Pythagorean Theorem. We will introduce several amazing proofs and some of its applications or fun facts.
- A few proofs
- Pythagorean Triples, which are integers a, b, c that satisfy $$a^2 + b^2 = c^2 $$ Can we find all such triples?
- Rational numbers on unit circle (circle of radius 1)
- Construction of irrational numbers.
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