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PROJECT: Your project will be a Carrollean treatment of a topic in mathematics. It may be a report, a performance, a musical, a short play -- it's mostly up to you! But we'll keep working on it throughout the semester (we don't want to put it off). At the end of the course (the last week of classes) we will present our projects to each other.
We've already taken a few cracks at channeling Carroll, and Carroll continues to give us some good examples of how to apply creative forces to mathematical (and other) issues:
The hard part(s) will be finding the mathematics to focus on, and then the appropriate mechanism for presenting it "in the spirit of Lewis Carroll".
If you would like, stop by my office sometime to toss around some ideas, or to discuss an idea that you've already developed.
This is a substantial part of your grade -- 25% -- so I will expect these to look like they've received a great deal of attention and love and care!
As a tentative deadline, your project idea should be submitted, as a one-page, typed concept, by 11/12. The assignments associated with the project will count toward the project grade.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them -- Ding-dong, bell.