MATH 1600

Totally Awesome Mathematics

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Mathematics is a broad and varied field that extends far beyond calculus and the high school curriculum. This course will introduce exciting mathematical topics to stretch your imagination and give you a feel for the great variety of problems that mathematicians study. Each week a different lecturer will present a new topic and fun problems for discussion. Topics will vary from year to year, but may include the following: encryption and number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, knots and surfaces, combinatorics of polyhedra, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and signal processing, unsolvable problems and noncomputable functions, card shuffling and probability, symmetry and solutions of polynomial equations.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: one semester calculus. (AP credit is sufficient.)

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