MCS-115 Finite Math
Fall 2002
MCS-115 homepage
Assignments and class schedule
Useful Links
Prof.
Moira McDermott
Homework Guidelines
Feedback
Project
Math in the Movies
Coicidences (12/9, 12/10)
Buffon's Needle (
applet
)
Buffon's Needle (
applet
)
More Monkey Business
Still More about Monkeys
Infinite Monkey Theorem
The
SIMI
project
Chance Surprises (11/19, 11/20)
Pennies
More Monty Hall Problem from
Cartalk
Mobius band and Klein bottle (11/15, 11/18)
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)
Klein bottle in 4D space
(Banchoff)
Lego mobius bands
klein bottle products
Rubber Sheet Geometry (11/12, 11/14)
Perplexing Pencil Puzzle
Fractals and Chaos Game (11/8, 11/11)
Chaos Game
(Target Practice)
Chaos Game
applet
Koch curve and Sierpinski's Carpet
(text's applet)
Barnsley's Fern and fractal garden
(text's applet)
Chaos Game
(text's applet)
John Conway's Game of Life (11/5, 11/6)
Applet
from Book's website (also on your CD)
Game of Life
at www.math.com
Article
in Scientific American by Gardiner
Steve Smale, Rydell Professor, topology and chaos
Steve Smale
, 2002-2003 Rydell Professor
Paper by Steve Smale, to appear,
Chaos: Finding a Horseshoe on the Beaches of Rio
(requires postscript viewer like ghostview)
Infinity (10/22-11/1)
Biography of
Cantor
Hotel Infinity
More about
Infinity
Prime numbers (10/10,10/11)
The
Prime
Pages
Fibonacci Numbers (9/30, 10/7, 10/8)
Fibonacci
Nim
(java applet)
Fibonacci numbers
and the golden section home page
Fibonacci numbers and nature
golden ratio in nature
Fibonacci's
Rabbits
4th Dimension and beyond (9/23, 9/25)
and he built a crooked house
by Robert Heinlein (science fiction short story with 4 dimensional cubes in it)
Fabulous information and animations for thinking about the
4th dimension
and beyond (via David Cervone)
Flatland
: a satirical literary work (describes other dimensions through analogy)
Visualization of 4D hypercube (
applet
)
Pythagorean Theorem (4.1)
Great
java applet
proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Thirty-nine proofs of the
Pythagorean Theorem
More proofs of the
Pythagorean Theorem
Story 7. Let's Make a Deal (Ch. 1)
Stick or Switch
simulation (java applet)
Another
simulation
which makes it easy to do 200 trials
Monty Hall Problem
(Stick or Switch) websites (some broken links)
Why mathematicians care about
hat color
(this is related to the "dot problem" in 1.1)
Last modified: 12/11/02