Jason LaRue
Miami Palmetto Sr HS, Miami, FL
Senior
Hobbies
Clarinet, Rubik's cubing, Bridge, Recursion, Writing about recursion, Writing about writing about recursion,
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Clubs
Mu Alpha Theta math honor society, Phi Beta Chi science honor society, National Science Honor Society, Bridge Club, National Science Bow I,
Junior Engineering Technical Society, Underwater ROV club
Experience
Member of US Physics Team, 2006, RSI Scholar, 2006, Invited to Mathematics Olympiad Summer Program, 2005, Invited to Chemistry Olympiad Summer Program, 2005,
Two-time top 5, National Science Bowl, Physics Bowl Regional Winner, Division II
Biography
As relates to physics, I was born in the sixth grade in Miami, FL when I received a copy of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Since then, I've had two years of formal education, read at least two books about physics, and corrected typos in a copy of a 1912 manuscript on special relativity.
However, as does not relate to physics, I'm also vaguely interested in music, chemistry, astronomy, obscure games, and such varied topics as algebra of groups, of rings, algebra of fields, algebra of surfaces, and am considering adding analytical number theory to the list.
I seem to be interested in Broadway musicals, as I've been listening to them and singing / playing them as I've been writing this — specifically, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. I aspire to one day writing a quine in the Piet programming language.