Math Department (Thesis/2009-10)

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• Letter to junior math majors from the Chair.
• Form to be turned in by May 17.

• Topics with Julius Barbanel:
  • Commensurability
  • The Platonic Solids
  • The Special Construction Problems
  • Did Ancient Greek Mathematicians Invent Calculus?

• Topics with Paul Friedman:
  • Frieze and Wallpaper Patterns
  • Irrational Numbers
  • Pascal's Triangle
  • Many Proofs of Famous Results
  • Groups as Unions of Proper Subgroups
  • Cutting the Cheese Pizza
  • Lattice Points and the Geometry of Numbers
  • Sums of Squares
  • The Gaussian Integers

• Topics with Kathryn Lesh:
  • Public Key Cryptography

• Topics with Kim Plofker:
  • History of Proof
  • Mathematical Translation and Historical Interpretation of Original Sources
  • Numerical Approximations in Indian Mathematics
  • Topics in the History of Mathematical Astronomy

• Topics with Jue Wang:
  • Dynamics of Iterative Eigenvalue Methods
  • Jet Flow and Karman Vortex Street
  • Random Walk
  • Fourier Transform and Image Processing

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