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Revision as of 10:01, 15 December 2015


Rhea Section for MA279: "Modern Mathematics"

Professor Walther, Spring 2016



Welcome!

Please write [[Category:MA279Spring2016Walther]] at the bottom of each of your pages,

OTHERWISE NO CREDIT !

(If you use the "Create a child page" button, this should happen automatically...)


Course Info

  • Instructor: Prof. Walther
    • Office: MATH 746
    • email: walther at math dot purdue dot edu
    • Office hours: Tue 1:30-2:30, Th 2:00-3:00.
  • Class time and location: TTh 9:00-10:15, UNIV 217
  • Book: Excursions in modern mathematics (P. Tannenbaum), 7th edition.

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Discussion

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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. No more than one group per subject. Your 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! Please do not simply copy the lecture notes 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

Topic Number Topic Description Team Name
1 The Chinese Postman Problem (5.c) Name
2 Swarm Intelligence (6.c) Name
3 [[Walther_MA279_Spring2016_topic3|DNA-based computing (6.b)] Name
4 Privacy and Social Networks (7.c) Name
5 Alternatives to Kruskal's algorithm (7.a) Name
6 P vs NP: a Clay Millennium Problem with economic flavor Name
7 Dijkstra's algorithm and its variants for shortest paths (7.b) Name
8 Tournaments (8.c) Name
9 The graph isomorphism problem: theory and applications Name
10 Scheduling (Chapter 8) Name
11 The transportation problem: a glimpse into linear programming Name
12 The economic impact of mathematical algorithms in society Name



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