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**Office: MATH 746
 
**Office: MATH 746
 
**email: walther at math dot purdue dot edu
 
**email: walther at math dot purdue dot edu
**Office hours: Tue 1:30-2:30, Th 2:00-3:00.
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**Office hours: Tue 10:30-11:30, Th 2:00-3:00.
*Class time and location: TTh 9:00-10:15, UNIV 217
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*Class time and location: TTh 9:00-10:15, UNIV 117
*Book: Excursions in modern mathematics (P. Tannenbaum), 7th edition.
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*Book: Excursions in modern mathematics (P. Tannenbaum), 9th edition.
 
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==Important Links==
 
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== Course Related Material  ==
 
== Course Related Material  ==
*[[MA279 Fall 2013 Walther Course Notes|Course Notes]]
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*[[MA279 Fall 2018 Walther Course Notes|Course Notes]]
 
*Discussion of Homework Problems (Just keep adding to it!)  
 
*Discussion of Homework Problems (Just keep adding to it!)  
 
**[[MA 279 Fall2018 Walther HW 1|HW 1]]  
 
**[[MA 279 Fall2018 Walther HW 1|HW 1]]  
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== Your turn! Student Projects  ==
 
== Your turn! Student Projects  ==
As per the syllabus, 5% 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.  
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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.  
  
 
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Deadline: Sunday before dead week. No changes  after that will be taken into account.
 
Deadline: Sunday before dead week. No changes  after that will be taken into account.
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Here are the [http://www.math.purdue.edu/~walther/teach/279/projects2018.pdf Descriptions of the Projects]
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Here is the [http://www.math.purdue.edu/~walther/teach/279/rhea_grading.pdf Description of the Grading Policy]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic1|The Chinese Postman Problem (5.c)]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic1|Phyllotaxis and Fibonacci Numbers (9.a)]]
| Group J
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| Group 1: Jack Thomas Kurfman, Sean Egloff, Zach Hupp, Deeptanshu Malik, Jaqueline Stanley
 
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| 2  
 
| 2  
| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic2|Swarm Intelligence (6.c)]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic2|The Golden Ratio and Human Perception (9.b)]]
| Group E
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| Group 2: Daniel Bloom, Corajean Medina, Pratyush Jain, Liam Plunkitt, Qianru Jia
 
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| 3  
 
| 3  
| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic3|DNA-based computing (6.b)]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic3|The Mysteries of the Number e (10.a)]]
| Name
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| Group 3: Rundong Huang, Donnie Adams, John Roth Garcia, Mihir Tiwari, Austin Weaver
 
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| 4  
 
| 4  
|  [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic4|Privacy and Social Networks (7.c)]]
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|  [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic4|How to Plan Buying a House (10.c)]]
|Group F
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| Group 4: Kelly Nicole Plakyda, Victoria Oldson, Calvin Henry, Zijie Zhou, Simon Langowski
 
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| 5  
 
| 5  
|  [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018topic5|Alternatives to Kruskal's algorithm (7.a)]]
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|  [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018topic5|Rigid Motions in 3-space(11.b)]]
| Group C
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| Group 5:
 
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| 6
 
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic6|P vs NP: a Clay Millennium Problem with economic flavor]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic6|Penrose Tilings (11.c)]]
| Group I
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| Group 6: Katie Huntzinger, Stephen Sutton, Benjamin Barr, Parshwa Shah, Oscar Thomas
 
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| 7  
 
| 7  
| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic7|Dijkstra's algorithm and its variants for shortest paths (7.b)]]  
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic7|Fractals and Music (12.b)]]  
| Group D
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| Group 7: Noah Philip Talbot, Daniel Joshua Atallah, Daksh Jotwani, Zoe Phillips, Alex Vian
 
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| 8  
 
| 8  
| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic8|Tournaments (8.c)]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic8|Fractal Antennas (12.d)]]
| Group B
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| Group 8:
 
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| 9  
 
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic9|The graph isomorphism problem: theory and applications]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic9|The Malthusian Doctrine (Mini 3.a)]]
| Group A
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| Group 9: Ryan Sullivan, Albert Yu, Ji Ma, Alicia Troyer, Xinping Zhang
 
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| 10
 
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic10|Scheduling (Chapter 8)]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic10|The size of the US Population and the Logistic Model (Mini 3.b)]]
| Group G
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| Group 10: Yujie Chen, Qining Guo, Tong Ding, Qihui Feng, Dingyue Liu
 
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic11|The transportation problem: a glimpse into linear programming]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic11|Graph Coloring and Senate Committees(Mini 2)]]
| Group H
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| Group 11: Logesh Roshan Ramadoss, Yash Pundlik, Pranav Ram, Prashast Vaidya, Pranav Anappindi
 
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic12|The economic impact of mathematical algorithms in society]]
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| [[Walther_MA279_Fall2018_topic12|Montana vs Huntington-Hill (Mini 1.b)]]
| Name
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| Group 12: Sean Flannery, Laura Long, Sam Mercier, Mark Palij, Yash Pujara
 
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  • 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


Discussion

  • post link to discussion page here
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Other Links


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



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