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Revision as of 13:39, 15 August 2018


Rhea Section for MA279: "Modern Mathematics"

Professor Walther, Fall 2018



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Course Info

  • Instructor: Prof. Walther
    • Office: MATH 746
    • email: walther at math dot purdue dot edu
    • Office hours: Tue 10:30-11:30, Th 2:00-3:00.
  • Class time and location: TTh 9:00-10:15, UNIV 117
  • Book: Excursions in modern mathematics (P. Tannenbaum), 9th edition.

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Your turn! Student Projects

As per the syllabus, 10% of your grade will be based on contributing a Rhea page on a subject related to the course. To pick a subject, simply write your group name next to it.

Notes:

  • No more than one group per subject.
  • Once a group has signed up with a project, this project is closed to other groups.
  • A group cannot un-sign from a subject they signed up for. Signing up is permanent.

Your project page will be graded based on content as well as interactions with other people (page views, comments/questions on the page, etc.). The number of links to other courses and subjects will also be taken into account: the more the merrier! Do not simply copy the book and do not plagiarize. Read Rhea's copyright policy before proceeding.

For some lovely contributions, see Honors Project 2011 by Daniel Lee.

Deadline: Sunday before dead week. No changes after that will be taken into account.

Here are the Descriptions of the Projects


Topic Number Topic Description Team Name
1 Phyllotaxis and Fibonacci Numbers (9.a) Group
2 The Golden Ratio and Human Perception (9.b) Group
3 The Mysteries of the Number e (10.a) Group
4 How to Plan Buying a House (10.c) Group
5 Rigid Motions in 3-space(11.b) Group
6 Penrose Tilings (11.c) Group
7 Fractals and Music (12.b) Group
8 Fractal Antennas (12.d) Group
9 The Malthusian Doctrine (Mini 3.a) Group
10 The size of the US Population and the Logistic Model (Mini 3.b) Group
11 Graph Coloring and Senate Committees(Mini 2) Group
12 Montana vs Huntinton-Hill (Mini 1.b) Group



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