MCS-115 The Nature of Mathematics Useful Links

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General links
- Textbook's webpage (requires registration)
- What is mathematics? (an article by R. Lewis, Fordham)
Chapter 1 stories
- Math in the Movies (A problem similar to Story 3 is featured in a popular movie. Which one?)
- Story 7
  - Stick or Switch simulation (java applet)
  - Another simulation
  - Another simulation which makes it easy to do 200 trials
  - More Monty
- Why mathematicians care about hat color (this is related to the "dot problem" in Story 9)
Pigeon Hole Principle (2.1)
- World Population Clock
Fibonacci Numbers (2.2)
- Fibonacci's Rabbits
- Fibonacci numbers and the golden section home page
  - Fibonacci numbers and nature
  - Golden Ratio in nature
  - Who was Fibonacci
- Fibonacci bio at St. Andrew's history of math archive
- Fibonacci Nim (java applet)
Clock Arithmetic and Check Digits (2.4)
- How UPC bar codes work.
- Check Digit Calculator
- Clock Arithmetic (applets)
- Practice Clock Arithmetic (with answers) (More)
- Credit Card Validation
- Verify check digits of UPC and ISBN codes (select Applet 10 in Chapter 8)