Richard Wong

Assistant Teaching Professor in Mathematics at Rice University.

This quarter, I will be teaching for the UCLA Summer Bridge Program and the Summer Bootcamp in linear algebra.

Math 94: Explorations of Mathematics in the Physical World

You can find the course syllabus here.

How can we describe the physical world mathematically? How can we use mathematics to describe phenomena in physics, chemistry, or other STEM fields? How should we think about and interpret mathematical formulas?

Mathematics is a language that allows us to describe the geometry of the physical world around us, such as estimating the number of candies in a jar, the trajectory of a baseball, the behavior of chemical reactions, or the amount of water flowing out of a bottle.

In this course, you will develop the reasoning and questioning skills needed to explore these calculus concepts and apply them to real-life and STEM situations. Moreover, you will become fluent in communicating your ideas through the language of mathematics.

UCLA Math Department Summer Bootcamp

I will be leading the Linear Algebra portion of the Bootcamp for incoming first-year graduate students.