Math 170: Ideas in Mathematics (Spring 2007)

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 10 am - 11 am DRL A8

Faculty: Nate Ackerman TA: Daniel Pomerleano TA: Chintan Mehta
E-mail: nate AT math.upenn.edu E-mail: dpomerle AT math.upenn.edu E-mail: chintanm AT math.upenn.edu

Universal Aids Testing: Outline for Jan. 16 or 18
Newton's Method: Outline for Jan. 23 or 25
Quaternions: Outline for Jan. 23 or 25
Space Filling Curves: Outline for Jan. 30 or Feb. 1
Logarithms, Exponentials, and Inverses: Outline for Jan. 30 or Feb. 1
Peano Arithmetic: Outline for Feb. 6 or Feb. 8
Box Counting Dimension: Outline for Feb. 6 or Feb. 8
Golden Ration and Rectangle: Outline for Feb. 13 or Feb. 15
Pascal's Triangle: Outline for Feb. 20 or Feb. 22
Algebraic and Transcendental Numbers: Outline for Feb. 20 or Feb. 22
Distribution of Primes: Outline for Feb. 27 or Feb. 29
Perfect and Other Numbers: Outline for Feb. 27 or Feb. 29
Cellular Automata: Outline for Mar. 13 or Mar. 15
P and NP: Outline for Mar. 20 or Mar. 22
Lambda Calculus: Outline for Mar. 20 or Mar. 22
Ackerman Function and Non-Primitive Recursive Computable Functions: Outline for Mar. 27 or Mar. 29
Measures: Outline for Mar. 27 or Mar. 29
Recursive Enumerable Degrees and Post's Problem: Outline for Apr. 4 or Apr. 6
Busy Beaver Problem: Outline for Apr. 4 or Apr. 6
Godel's Incompleteness Theorem: Outline for Apr. 11 or Apr. 13
Programming Languages: Outline for Apr. 11 or Apr. 13
Zeno's Paradoxes: Outline for Apr. 18 or Apr. 20

This page was created by Nate Ackerman, and last revised on January 3, 2007.