We wish to expose campers to many new and exciting branches of mathematics. In addition, daily talks will be given by members of the NIU faculty and guest speakers from outside the university. How to draw tessellations like M.C. Escher How to unravel knots using basic algebra. Discovering and proving geometric theorems using sketchpad. We realize that young people cannot just do math all day long.
Recreational facilities are available on campus.
Plus, we hope to organize a field trip to Argonne National Lab or Fermilab. One year of high school equivalent algebra is recommended . Camp Director Richard Blecksmith is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Northern Illinois University and has been at NIU since 1984. He has published several articles in the American Mathematical Monthly. His areas of interest are number theory and combinations.