Introduction to Sequences

In class today I gave an overview of how to use the recursion to directly define mathematical sequences.

You can see a recording of the class here

Here is the notebook I used in class: sequences.ipynb

This was a short class as the only thing I wanted us to achieve this week is understanding of recursion. Recursion can be used for a number of things (not just defining sequences directly), if you would like an interesting exercise you can attempt to use recursion to study the Collatz Conjecture. If you do attempt this, feel free to get in touch and I’ll happily talk it over with you (or if there’s enough interest, I’ll do this in class).