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The Purdue Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME) is a program intended to support and document various research projects by students in mathematics at Purdue. It also exposes students to new resources available to them, such as Rhea, and Sage.
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=PRiME=
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The Purdue Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME) is a program intended to support and document various research projects by students in mathematics at Purdue. It also exposes students to new resources available to them, such as [[About_Rhea|Rhea]], and Sage.
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*PRiME 2012
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**[http://intranet.math.purdue.edu/news/2012/06/26/advance-prime-speaker-series-women-of-color-in-the-mathematical-sciences/ ADVANCE PRiME Speaker Series]
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**[[2012_Summer_Math_REU_Walther|PRiME with Prof. Walther]]
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*[[Prime2011|PRiME 2011]]
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*[[Prime2010|PRiME 2010]]
  
=Participants=
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==PRiME Resources and relevant links==
 
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*[[Why_do_I_math_-_Weigandt|"Why do I math?", by Jamie Weigandt]]
Anyone affiliated with Purdue willing to document project in mathematics is welcome to participate in PRiME. If you want to be added to the official list of participants below, just add yourself. The emphasis of PRiME is to expose the excitement of doing mathematics.
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*Could somebody (a student) please write an introduction to latex? It would be a good practice for a student following the tutorial.  
 
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* Matt Davis (Purdue 10' Alumnus)
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* James Ryan (Undergraduate Student)
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* Jamie Weigandt (Graduate Student)
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=Projects=
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Matt Davis and Jamie Weigandt will be learning about the generalization of the ABC conjecture to number fields, and using the data in Cremona's tables of elliptic curves to write down atypical ABC triples over number fields of degree ≤6.
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James Ryan will we working through William Stein's free online book [http://modular.math.washington.edu/ent/ Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets]
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= Schedule =
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Monday, July 12, 2010
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* 7:30 - 9:30 in MSEE 393: PRiME Kickoff with the [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8269328330690408516# Nova Special on Fermat's Last Theorem]
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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* Discussed material from chapter 1 of Stein's Book.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
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* Discussed euclidean algorithm
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* Started sage tutorial
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Friday, July 16, 2010 [Planned]
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* James Ryan will present the main result which makes the euclidean algorithm work.
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* Matt, James, and Jamie will begin discussing [http://www.ams.org/notices/200002/fea-mazur.pdf Mazur's notices article about the ABC conjecture].
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* Start an article about [[ABC triples]]
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PRiME

The Purdue Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME) is a program intended to support and document various research projects by students in mathematics at Purdue. It also exposes students to new resources available to them, such as Rhea, and Sage.


PRiME Resources and relevant links


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Questions/answers with a recent ECE grad

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