Summer Math Preview: High School

For high school students interested in our two weeks of summer programs at Benito Juarez high school, here's a preview of the math content!

What is Category Theory? Perhaps it's best to hear about the subject from your instructor, Dr. Eugenia Cheng [watch until at least 8:25]:

"The mathematics of mathematics" can feel very abstract at first, but it is that abstraction that lets it be applied to so many different contexts, and represent (visually) many ideas that feel intuitive. It's about using connections (morphisms) between things (objects) to represent and understand their structures. Almost any diagram you can think of that shows lines connecting things is representing category theory!

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‍The second week of the course is focusing on statistics and data science. One of my favorite parables of this field of study is survivorship bias, perhaps most famously represented by this image:

Join us for either (or both!) weeks of this course.

Registration available here

Juarez HS, 1450-1510 W. Cermak

• Category Theory with Eugenia Cheng, 7/7-7/11, 10AM-12:30PM
• Statistics and Data Science with UChicago professors, 7/14-7/18, 10AM-12:30PM

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