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JHR's MA190 page
MA 190
Contemporary Mathematics
Textbook: What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 9,
by Dana McKenzie.
MTRF, G
John Rickert,
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: G-215A, Crapo Hall
Phone: (812) 877-8473
Campus mail: CM 141
e-mail: john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu
Installing LaTeX on Windows.
TeXworks for mathematical typesetting.
An introduction to LaTeX
A not so short introduction of LaTeX
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol list
The AMS's Short Math Guide for LaTeX
LaTeX wiki
"How to start using \(\LaTeX\)
MikTeX page
arXiv.org Mathematics papers.
Math Overflow.
The Polymath project.
Timothy Gower's blog.
Terry Tao's blog.
John Baez's blog
John Borwein's blog
Keith Devlin's blog
Frank Morgan's blog
Tim Chartier's blog
AMS Math in the media page
Table of contents for the What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences series.
Millennium Prize Problems.
Engineering Grand Challenges.
The 2014 Abel prize in mathematics was awarded to Yakov Sinai
Mathematics columns at the MAA website
Articles in The College Mathematics Journal
Articles in Mathematics Magazine
Math in the Media:
Data mining, a short introduction
Fossil raindrops reveal early atmosphere
King's Gambit calculation (chess)
MA275 in Futurma.
The mathematics behind morphing faces
Mathematical Patterns May Help Forecast Future Crimes
Medical diagnostic tests and false positives
Movie-making
A new approach to predicting spacecraft re-entry
\(\pi\) the first 4,000,000 digits visualized
Renewable Energy Throws Power Grid off Balance
Rise of the crossword robots
Also here
Dr Fill finished 141-st in 2012 and 65th in 2014
Sand. How does sand flow?
Starling flocks behave like flying magnets A link to the research paper (number 140)
Trait diversity promotes stability of community dynamics
History of mathematics quiz
Presentations
Assertion-evidence model for presentation slide
PDF for Bad Presentation Bingo
Since this is a seminar course the course grade will be determined mostly by participation and projects.
- Attendance and Participation 20%
- Group Paper and Presentation 25%
- Final Paper and Presentation 25%
- Undergraduate Conference Report 10%
- Milestones, Quizzes, etc. 20%
Course Moodle page
My home page
Mathematics Department Home page