Learn By Teaching

[stoutfellow]

Over the last few meetings, I've given my student her project and pointed out several different techniques she might use. Her work has to do with hexagons. Last night, lying in bed, I thought about an application to octagons of the latest technique I gave her, and got some very nice results. The stuff I figured out from my last student's work was also involved.

(Octagons are quite a bit harder than hexagons, although easier than heptagons or nonagons, and I've been having trouble making progress with them, so this is kind of a big deal.)