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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.
Important Links
Course Related Material
- Course Notes
- Discussion of Homework Problems (Just keep adding to it!)
Discussion
- post link to discussion page here
- post link to discussion page here
Other Links
- Math Club Homepage
- Rhea's Math Squad
- Study Abroad
- The Big 10 Graduate School Expo
- Math Internships and Research Opportunities (REU's)
- Math Game Competition
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
Here is the Description of the Grading Policy
| Topic Number | Topic Description | Team Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phyllotaxis and Fibonacci Numbers (9.a) | Group 1: Jack Thomas Kurfman, Sean Egloff, Zach Hupp, Deeptanshu Malik, Jaqueline Stanley |
| 2 | The Golden Ratio and Human Perception (9.b) | Group 2: Daniel Bloom, Corajean Medina, Pratyush Jain, Liam Plunkitt, Qianru Jia |
| 3 | The Mysteries of the Number e (10.a) | Group 3: Rundong Huang, Donnie Adams, John Roth Garcia, Mihir Tiwari, Austin Weaver |
| 4 | How to Plan Buying a House (10.c) | Group 4: Kelly Nicole Plakyda, Victoria Oldson, Calvin Henry, Zijie Zhou, Simon Langowski |
| 5 | Rigid Motions in 3-space(11.b) | Group 5: |
| 6 | Penrose Tilings (11.c) | Group 6: Katie Huntzinger, Stephen Sutton, Benjamin Barr, Parshwa Shah, Oscar Thomas |
| 7 | Fractals and Music (12.b) | Group 7: Noah Philip Talbot, Daniel Joshua Atallah, Daksh Jotwani, Zoe Phillips, Alex Vian |
| 8 | Fractal Antennas (12.d) | Group 8: |
| 9 | The Malthusian Doctrine (Mini 3.a) | Group 9: Ryan Sullivan, Albert Yu, Ji Ma, Alicia Troyer, Xinping Zhang |
| 10 | The size of the US Population and the Logistic Model (Mini 3.b) | Group 10: Yujie Chen, Qining Guo, Tong Ding, Qihui Feng, Dingyue Liu |
| 11 | Graph Coloring and Senate Committees(Mini 2) | Group 11: Logesh Roshan Ramadoss, Yash Pundlik, Pranav Ram, Prashast Vaidya, Pranav Anappindi |
| 12 | Montana vs Huntington-Hill (Mini 1.b) | Group 12: Sean Flannery, Laura Long, Sam Mercier, Mark Palij, Yash Pujara |
