Week: #1 8/29 –8/31
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Chinese_overview.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_mathematics.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/History_overview.html
Note: You should
skim the third reading, and try to read the other two for highlights.
All of Chapter
1, “Defining Culture” at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture#Defining_culture
Assignment: Consider the following questions (you do not need to write the answers
out) for our discussion on Wednesday.
Other: Purchase your books, “What is Mathematics,
Really?” and “Prime Obsession”. Recall
that the ISBN numbers are listed on the course webpage. Note that you will need
the first book immediately for next week.
ORDER today!!!! Note: If you do a
search on Froogle or Google you may be able to purchase these very cheaply.
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Week: #2 9/7
Assignment: Critiquing
a film that “has” mathematics in it
Due:
9/14
Other: Class members volunteered to look up further
information on the number systems. A
good place to start is Google or Wikepedia.
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Week: #3 9/12-9/14
Assignment:
Working with different numeral systems
DUE:
9/21
Other: Make sure to keep updated with our webpage
and do your reading assignment as soon as your book gets in!
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Week: #4 9/19-9/21
Assignment: Journal #1
DUE:
Friday, 9/30 (you can email or slide it under my door)
Note: if you email it, please put a
subject heading of “math200journal1”.
Other: CBS has put its “math” show, NUMBERS, on for
a second season. The first show is this
Friday (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/)
at
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage and do your reading assignment as soon as your
book gets in!
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Week: #5 9/26-9/28
1) One thing you agree with and WHY and list
the page number(s) you found it on
2) One thing you disagree with and WHY and list
the page number(s) you found it on
I will collect these on Wednesday 10/5
Assignment to be worked on: Journal #2
DUE:
Monday 10/10 by midnight (you can
email or slide it under my door)
Note: if you email it, please put a
subject heading of “math200journal1”.
Other: CBS has put its “math” show, NUMBERS, on for
a second season. Try (if you can) to
watch it on Friday (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/)
at 10 pm. Watch or tape the show. How do they try to portray the world of
mathematics?
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage and do your reading assignment as soon as your
book gets in!
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Week: #6 10/3-10/5
1) One thing you agree with and WHY and list
the page number(s) you found it on
2) One thing you disagree with and WHY and list
the page number(s) you found it on
I will collect these on Wednesday 10/5
Assignment to be worked on : continue to work
on Journal #2 that is due 10/10
Other: If you can, go see the play PROOF with the
math club on Sunday 10/16
Start thinking about your midterm
project- what do you want to explore?
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage and do your reading assignment as soon as your book
gets in!
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Week: #7 10/10-10/12
Assignment to be worked on : Midterm Project
Other: If you can, go see the play PROOF with the
math club on Sunday 10/16
Start thinking about your midterm
project- what do you want to explore?
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage.
You can check
more on game theory by reading this and
checking out the provided links
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Week: #8 10/17-10/19
Readings assigned: Read pp 138-141, pp 198-232 out of the Hersh
book, make sure you have your copy of the Prime Obsession book because we will be
starting that next. When you read the last excerpt out of the Hersh book, try
to go for “big picture”. This last bit
is very dense. Look back here for some questions to
guide your reading that will be posted on 10/18.
Assignment to be worked on : Midterm Project
Other: Make sure you are working on the project
The
questions you were assigned
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage.
You can check
more on game theory by reading this and
checking out the provided links
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Week: #9 10/24-10/26
Assignment to be worked on : Midterm Project
Other: Continue to work and develop your project!
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage.
Week: #10 10/31-11/2
Assignment to be worked on : Midterm Project
Other: Continue to work and develop your project! We will be watching a video for part of the
time on Monday.
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage.
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Week: #11 11/7-11/9
Readings assigned: Prime Obsession- Read Chapter 4,5. We will
discuss this on 11/7.
There is a book
on hold at the library, titled “ The Code Book”. To answer the question, “who cares about
primes”- read the following pages: 243-292 and pay careful attention to pp.
274-279.
Assignment to be turned in : Midterm Project—turn in on
Monday November 7 or at the latest by November 9, Wednesday.
Other: Some questions to
guide your reading
Make sure to
keep updated with our webpage.
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Week #12 11/ 14- 11/16
PRESENTATION OF
MIDTERM PROJECTS
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Week #13 11/21
Assignment to be turned in : To be handed out
in class on Monday and we will do some of it in class.
Other:
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Week #14 11/28/05
Looked at an overview of complex
numbers..
Assignment to be turned in :
Journal #3
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Week #15 12/02/05
Looked at
modular arithmetic and RSA encoding.
Assignment to be turned in : RSA work due Monday 12/5
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Week #16
Final
presentations on the day of finals