- Last time: the poster session
- Today:
- Many compliments on the poster session. Well done!
- Discuss poster/paper grades:
- The posters are graded.
- Students were very generous to each other - surprise!
- Faculty and senior peers were a little tougher....
- I think that you did a great job!
- Those who would like me to grade their revised papers must
also submit their corrected drafts! I have to see the
improvement in light of my corrections/suggestions.
- Overview for final
- Reflections on the course: can you answer
constructively the question "Of what value is mathematics?"
- In games
- strategies: dogs versus turkeys
- fractals for landscapes in those video games....
- probabilities, bias, and the expectation of
fairness
- Fibonacci nim (games with winning strategies)
- the mathematics of chess
- logic and contradiction
- In nature
- Fibonacci and math modelling (rabbits!)
- Fibonacci and spirals
- Platonic solids and viruses, crystals, etc.
- The pleasing golden rectangle, and ratio
- Knots and DNA
- Math modeling and the game of life
- In science and technology
- The mobius universe
- the dodecahedral shape of the universe!
- cryptography and war
- topology
- symmetry
- In philosophy
- infinity, of vastly different sizes
- the concepts of number
- Platonic solids
- In psychology/sociology
- probability to the rescue in surveys
- In business
- Art galleries
- Lotteries
- cryptography
- In art
- Fibonacci/Prime music
- Escher and impossible
- Platonic solids
- fractals
- tilings, as on sweaters, for example!
- The pleasing golden rectangle
- literature and Lewis Carroll
- stereographic projection as design (e.g. Mercedes
Benz)
- In history
- Pythagoras and whole numbers
- The evolution of the concept of numbers
- Fibonacci and math modelling (rabbits!)
- In sanity! (Ooh, sorry!)
- The "square root of two murder"
- Cantor and the madness of seeing too far
- Math has driven students crazy for years....
- Robert Graves's
Warning
to Children
- Evaluations
- Plain ol' evaluations
- Honors evaluations
- Next time: the final!
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