Instructors: Donna Flint Dan Kemp   E-mail: Donna Flint Dan Kemp
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Course Description
  The Senior Seminar I is the first semester of a two semester (one credit each semester) course designed as a capstone experience for Mathematics majors.  Students will be involved in a variety of activities designed to prepare them to research and write a senior thesis in mathematics.   Sometime during this course students will select a mathematical topic to study under the guidance of a faculty member.

During the second semester, students will prepare a portfolio of their collegiate mathematics work, , and prepare a word-processed paper and PowerPoint presentation based on the on their topic selected during the first semester.
 

The following statement is copied verbatim from a Board of Regents message. 

Freedom in learning. Under Board of Regents and University policy student academic performance may be evaluated solely on an academic basis, not on opinions or conduct in matters unrelated to academic standards. Students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion, but they are responsible for learning the content of any course of study for which they are enrolled. Student who believe that an academic evaluation reflects prejudiced or capricious consideration of student opinions or conduct unrelated to academic standards should first contact the instructor of the course to initiate a review of the evaluation. If the student remains unsatisfied, the student may contact the department head and/ or dean of the college which offers the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.

Textbook
     There is no required textbook for Fall 2008.
 

Grading
  The course grade will be based on class participation, written work, and PowerPoint presentations according to criteria passed out in class.
 

Links

Math 401-1 Schedule

Guide to Writing Mathematics  This guide was written by Annalisa Crannell for her calculus students, but it does make many important points about writing in mathematics.

Mathematical Association of America

American Mathematical Society - Careers for mathematics majors.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Association for Women in Mathematics

Peanut Software.  This site contain some very useful (and free!) windows programs.  In particular, the graphing program WinPlot and the dynamic geometry program WinGeom are especially recommended.

History of Mathematics - the MacTutor archives

Biographies of women mathematicians

Famous non-mathematicians.  A list of people in various non-mathematical occupations who majored or minored in mathematics.  For example, Teri Hatcher.

Early Use of Mathematics Words

SOS Mathematics.  A site full of commercial advertising and useful outlines and summaries of various areas of mathemaics.

Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Mathematics

Eric Weisstein's  World of Mathematics  This is a comprehensive and encyclopedic site with material about every aspect of mathematics that you could imagine.  It's based on the program Mathematica.

The Math FORUM.  This is yet another gateway to a wealth of mathematical information available on the web.  It's oriented towards teaching, K-12 and College.

Maths Net This is a British site devoted to all aspects of mathematics education, elementary through college.  The British typically write maths where we would write math[ematic]s.

Books that Mathematics Majors should be reading.  This list was compiled and is maintained by Dr. Donna Flint.  It contains mathematics books other than text books that she and other faculty members have found interesting.  New items are added as they are received.

Web Sites that Mathematics Majors should be visiting.  This is another list compiled and maintained by Dr. Flint.  If you find or know of sites that aren't on the list please let her know.

Historica-Matematica This is a virtual forum for scholarly discussion of the history of mathematics in a broad sense, among professionals and non-professionals with a serious interest in the field.

For more information please contact Dan Kemp (688-6214)

Last Update: 06/13/2008