You have an assignment.

Note: there is now an LMS page for this course, which contains some handouts.

Possible ideas for presentations

• An article about cracking lottery scratch games.
• Chance News.
• Professor Lim discussed some ideas in social networks, in the class on February 29.
• Some other ideas: chaos theory, fractals, game theory (including the prisoners' dilemma), the history of math. You can research all of these online.
• Computational simulations (for example, the behaviour of a double pendulum).
• The textbook also has plenty of topics, and you could present something from there.

Topics

• Some information about the math of operations research concentration. (pdf file)
• Fibonacci numbers
• The Euclidean Algorithm (slides)
• Winning the Euclidean game
• Euler's ϕ-function

RPI Resources

• The Math Sciences department page for undergraduates. This includes information on the curriculum, dual majors, and the mathematical sciences club, and other links.
• The RPI catalog gives information on detailed requirements for dual majors and plenty of other information, including academic regulations. The page listing departments and degree programs is here.
• A handout from Bram Van Heuveln on the cognitive science major can be found on the course LMS page.

Mathematical Resources:

• MathWorld
• The San Francisco Exploratorium's list of cool mathematics sites.
• The Math Forum includes pages on famous historical mathematical problems and also Ask Dr. Math, which contains questions and answers on a number of issues.
• Nick Sloane's online encyclopedia of sequences.

Mathematics Course Materials.

RPI Math