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Syllabus |
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Student Paper Contest Guidelines |
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How to read a scientific paper |
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The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg by Leonhard Euler |
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Writing Assignment #1 |
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My notations on Machiavelli's The Prince |
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Brief extract from Machiavelli's The Prince |
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E.T. Bell on Euler |
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Tips for analytical reading |
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To help you understand Euler's paper, you should read the references below. Both are available online through the university's library system. Make sure you can find them, you'll need to find articles like this in the future. (1) The Truth about Konigsberg, Hopkins
and Wilson, The College Mathematics Journal, v. 35, #3, May (2) About the Cover: Euler and Konigsberg's Bridges: A Historical Overview, Alexanderson, Bulletin of the AMS, v. 43, #4, pp. 568. |
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Selection from Plato's Meno |
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Selection on topology from Courant and Robbins' What is Mathematics? |
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Selection from Aristotle's Prior Analytics and Plato's Thaetetus |
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An example of a good outline from Chris Gast |
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Presentation Dates |
| A note about online sources | |
| Link to article about the history of the calculus of variations | |
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Robert Brown's Microscopical Observations |
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Notes on Writing Assignment #2 |
| Here is a link to Fourier's Analytical Theory of Heat. You can download the entire book in PDF format. Look on the left side of the linked page. It's a long book! We will be reading parts of Chapter III. For now, I'd like you to read paragraphs 163-170. | |
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Poincare's article on mathematical creation |
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Von Neumann's article on mathematical creation |