Class Schedule for Mathematics 4513 - Mathematics Senior Seminar - Spring 2011

Class Date Day Type Presenter Description
1 Jan 19 Wed Class discussion   Brainstorming session: Ideas for class activities
2 Jan 21 Fri Class discussion   Types of mathematical objects, I
3 Jan 24 Mon Class discussion   Types of mathematical objects, II
4 Jan 26 Wed Class discussion   What is mathematics?, I
5 Jan 28 Fri Class discussion   What is mathematics?, II
6 Jan 31 Mon Seminar McCullough How to prove it, I (implications)
7 Feb 2 Wed No class   OU closed for bad weather
8 Feb 4 Fri No class   OU closed for bad weather
9 Feb 7 Mon Seminar McCullough How to prove it, II (proof by contradiction)
10 Feb 9 Wed No class   OU closed for bad weather
11 Feb 11 Fri Seminar McCullough How to prove it, III (quantifiers)
12 Feb 14 Mon Individual presentations   Examples of proof methods, I
13 Feb 16 Wed Individual presentations   Examples of proof methods, II
14 Feb 18 Fri Seminar McCullough How to prove it, IV (mathematical induction)
15 Feb 21 Mon Class discussion   Retrospective: My undergraduate math courses, I
16 Feb 23 Wed Class discussion   Retrospective: My undergraduate math courses, II
17 Feb 25 Fri Seminar McCullough Presenting mathematics, in writing and in talks, I
18 Feb 28 Mon Seminar McCullough Presenting mathematics, in writing and in talks, II
19 Mar 2 Wed Seminar McCullough Crash course in linear algebra, I
20 Mar 4 Fri Seminar McCullough Crash course in linear algebra, II
21 Mar 7 Mon Seminar McCullough Crash course in linear algebra, III
22 Mar 9 Wed Seminar McCullough Crash course in linear algebra, IV
23 Mar 11 Fri Seminar McCullough Crash course in linear algebra, V
24 Mar 21 Mon Seminar McCullough Intro to LaTeX, I
25 Mar 23 Wed Seminar McCullough Intro to LaTeX, II
26 Mar 25 Fri Seminar Abel

Goran
Hausdorff spaces and the IVT, a brief
introduction to the history of topology
The works of Benoît Mandelbrot
27 Mar 28 Mon Seminar Dao
Keffer
 
The development of calculus
How ideals saved the
Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
28 Mar 30 Wed Seminar Chadwell

Gause
The difficulties in proving the
four-color theorem
Gödel and incompleteness
29 Apr 1 Fri No class   MAA meeting
  Apr 1 Fri   Last day to withdraw without Dean's permission
30 Apr 4 Mon Seminar Jones
Thomas
Proving the four-color theorem
Gaussian distributions
31 Apr 6 Wed Seminar Abreu
Erdman
Georg Cantor
The enormity of the enormous theorem
32 Apr 8 Fri Seminar McCullough Creating mathematical objects, I
(Equivalence relations and equivalence classes)
33 Apr 11 Mon Seminar McCullough Creating mathematical objects, II
(Well-defined functions and operations)
34 Apr 13 Wed Seminar McCullough Creating mathematical objects, III
(Natural numbers and integers)
35 Apr 15 Fri Seminar McCullough Creating mathematical objects, IV
(Rational, real, and complex numbers)
36 Apr 18 Mon Class discussion   Prospective: post-graduation plans
37 Apr 20 Wed Seminar McCullough Easy calculus
38 Apr 22 Fri Seminar McCullough Beyond the Intermediate Value Theorem
39 Apr 25 Mon Seminar Dao
Goran
The mathematics of tsunami waves
The Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms
40 Apr 27 Wed Seminar Keffer How to win the lottery?
41 Apr 29 Fri Seminar Chadwell Statistics and sports rankings
42 May 2 Mon Seminar Abel Euler's totient function
43 May 4 Wed Seminar Abreu The mathematics of DNA testing
44 May 6 Fri Seminar Thomas On beyond the ladder problem
  May 9 Mon Seminar Jones
Gause
Erdman
Viewing L'Hôpital's rule geometrically
The Fedex problem
Linear algebra and combinatorics