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 |