Elijah Soria Presents Research at the JMM

January 8, 2016February 17, 2016 SMC Math/CS

Mathematics senior Elijah Soria presented his research entitled “Some Properties of Generalized k-Pell Sequences” at the MAA Student Poster Session at the 2016 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle. Nice job, Elijah!

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Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Saint Mary's College of California

Elijah Soria Presents Research at the JMM