MAT 115H: Mathematics for Liberal Arts

• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Classroom Agreement
• When it comes time for course evaluations, please visit this site.

• Materials for individual days/chapters/ideas:

  Day 1: Welcome Day 2: Making Scenes Day 3: Making Mobius Day 4: Mobius never ends.... Day 5: Dodgson as a young man Day 6: Dodgson still young Day 7: Bases Day 8: Fit the Second Day 9: Fit the Third Day 10: The Games of Fit the Third Day 11: More on the Games of Fit the Third Day 12: Modern "Ciphers" Day 13: More Ciphers"

  Day 14: Exam I Day 15: Fit the Fourth Day 16: More geometry! Day 17: The end of geometry, and Fit the Fifth Day 18: Fit the Fifth, and Determinants Day 19: Fit the Sixth Day 20: Finish Fit the Sixth Day 21: Still finishing! Day 22: Fit the Sixth, still Day 23: Exam II Day 24: Fit the Seventh! Day 25: Fit the Eighth Day 26: That's Logic! Day 27: That's Logic! Day 28: Conclusion Day 29: Presentations Day 30: More Presentations

• Links:
  • Our Lewis Carroll's Timeline
  • Carroll's timeline side-by-side with World Events
  • Charles Dodgson (and Lewis Carroll) as author:
    • His Works
      • Alice's Adventures Under Ground
      • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Poem by Austin Dobson
      • Alice in Wonderland
      • Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
      • A Wasp in a Wig -- the missing chapter of "Through the Looking Glass"
      • The Hunting of the Snark
      • Sylvie and Bruno; and an alternative, text-based copy
      • Collection of Stories
    • His mathematical works:
      • Dodgson condensation
      • A Logical Paradox
      • Euclid and His Modern Rivals
      • A Tangled Tale
      • Curiosa Mathematica: Pillow-problems thought out during wakeful hours.
      • A guide to the mathematical student in reading, reviewing, and working examples
      • Euclid and His Modern Rivals
      • A Method of taking votes on more than two issues (preview)
      • The Game of Logic
      • Symbolic Logic (much more heavily mathematical than the Game of Logic)
    • Lewis Carroll's Diaries
    • Concordance of Carroll's works
  • lewiscarroll-site.com, referred from J. David Sapir, Emeritus Professor Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
  • LewisCarroll.org page
  • The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection at the Library of Congress
  • Lewis Carroll Mathematics page
  • Lewis Carroll syllogisms
  • Alice in Wonderland -- an Interactive Adventure
  • Mr. Klein and Mr. Mobius (and Mr. Carroll)
  • Tom Lehrer sings math music (here are the lyrics - local copy).
  • Black on Carroll as a master of Proportional Representation
  • Principles of Parliamentary Representation

Notes:

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