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Why Mathematics?
MATH 117

Fall 2007

Section 1
MWF 2:00-2:50
Fenton 164

Research Projects Page-- Presentations are 8:30am-10:30am on Friday, December 21!

NOTES:
Sign-up/Schedule for order of presentations

HW 12 may be handed in up to 5:00pm on Tuesday, December 18, without penalty. No homework or extra credit will be accepted after that time.

Extra Credit Assignment #3 is due at 5:00pm on Tuesday, December 18.

Extra Credit Assignment #4 involves reading and writing a critique on Flatland. It's also due at 5:00pm on Tuesday, December 18.

Change to the syllabus: In the section on Quests add the following statement. "The lowest quest score will be dropped." This change is already reflected on ANGEL.

Research project guidelines are now available.

Your grades are now available on ANGEL through HW 10.

Web Resources

Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem -- This page gives 75 proofs, a small portion of the total number of proofs known!

The square root of 2 is irrational -- This page gives 14 proofs!

bigint--a program that can handle the huge modular computations needed for RSA

Nimskulls -- just in time for Halloween!

Clock arithmetic -- with any size clock from 2 to 26!

Galileo's inclined plane gravitational experiments

The 25 greatest mathematicians of all time (in someone's opinion)

The 100 greatest mathematical theorems of all time (in someone's opinion)

Play Fibonacci nim! -- Can you beat the computer every time?

Some links related to Fibonacci numbers

London was chosen as host of the 2012 Olympics through an election that used the Hare system.

A video of a sphere being turned inside out without breaking it

The Math in the Movies Page --A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.

Math Fun Facts! -- This fascinating page created by Francis Su of Harvey Mudd College is a treasure-trove of math nuggets

The Heart of Mathematics Website --Contains some additional resources and testimonials about the book