Possible topics for Math 350 projects
Here are some possible topics for student projects. Other topics are suggested in the text's
web links and the text's list of student projects.
- golden mean and Fibonacci numbers (taken, 12/5)
- partition function (taken, 12/2)
- twin primes and related questions (taken, 12/9)
- continued fraction expansions for e (taken, 12/7)
- history of Fermat's Last Theorem (taken, 12/5)
- quadratic reciprocity (proof, generalizations, or history)
- Riemann hypothesis (taken, 12/9)
- diophantine approximation of integers by fractions with small denominator
- Waring's problem: representing integers as sums of powers
- p-adic numbers and Hensel's Lemma
- biography and work of one of the mathematicians mentioned in the text (e.g. Leonhard Euler, David Hilbert, Sophie Germain, Donald Knuth, Ramanujan)
- algorithms for fast computations of addition, multiplication, matrix
operations, etc. (taken, 12/7)
- algorithms for primality testing
- quantum computing
- cryptography in electronic commerce
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