MCS-115 The Nature of Mathematics homepage

MCS-115 homepage	Homework Guidelines	Textbook
Tentative Schedule	Assignments and class schedule	Project
Mike Hvidsten	Course description	Tom LoFaro

Office Hours:
- Hvidsten (Olin 311, hvidsten@gustavus.edu, 507.933.7480)
- LoFaro (Olin 314, tlofaro@gustavus.edu, 507.933.7463)

Tentative Test Dates
- Wednesday, Sept 26, evening
- Wednesday, October 17, evening
- Wednesday, November 7, evening
- Final: Wednesday, December 19, 1-3pm

Featured Useful Links
- General links
  - Textbook's webpage (requires registration)
  - What is mathematics? (an article by R. Lewis, Fordham)
  - Art Benjamin Video
- Fractals and Chaos Game
  - Fractals in the arts
  - Fractal antennas (fractal antenna company)
  - Chaos Game (Target Practice)
  - Chaos Game applet
- John Conway's Game of Life (6.2)
  - Game of Life at www.math.com
  - Article in Scientific American by Gardner
  - Alan Hensel's fast, powerful life applet with many complex starting patterns
  - Alan Hensel's life applet can also be found here
- Euler Characteristic (5.3)
  - Polyhedral Torus you can rotate, made from regular polygons
- Möbius band and Klein bottle (5.2)
  - Möbius band
  - Klein bottles
    - Klein bottle you can rotate (Mathworld)
    - Pictures of Klein bottle
    - Klein bottle image (John Sullivan)
    - Another good picture of a Klein bottle
    - Movies of Klein bottle (various formats)
    - Large Klein bottle(from movie)
    - Klein bottle in 4D space (Banchoff)
    - Klein bottle products
    - Torus and Klein Bottle Games