History of Math, MA 330, Spring 2008
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Syllabus:
Course Poster Handouts for Monday, April 14:
Course Project Handouts for Wednesday, March 26:
Homework:
- Homework Due Wednesday, April 23
- Homework Due Monday, April 14
- Special Assignment Due Wednesday, April 2; for the alternate assignment if you could not attend the presentation, you need to get the article How should we introduce integration?, by D. Bressoud, published in the College Mathematics Journal in 1992. You can get this article from www.jstor.org, though you need to be in the UK system to use Jstor.
- Homework Due Monday, Mar 31
- Homework Due Monday, Mar 24
- Homework
Due Monday, Mar 3 -- CHANGE: DUE WEDNESDAY, MAR 5
- Homework Due Friday, Feb 29
- Homework Due Friday, Feb 22
- Homework
Due Friday, Feb 15 -- CHANGE: DUE MONDAY, FEB 18
- Homework Due Friday, Feb 8
- Homework Due Wednesday, Feb 6
- Reminder: The topic for your mathematical biography is due Friday, Feb 8. You need to turn in one page, typed, with the name of a mathematician and a paragraph describing them and the area of mathematics they worked in.
- Homework Due Wednesday, Jan 30
- Homework Due Monday, Jan 28
- Homework Due Friday, Jan 18
- Homework Due Wednesday, Jan 16
- Homework Due Monday, Jan 14
- Homework Due Friday, Jan 11
Biographical Essay Handouts for Friday, Feb 8:
LaTeX Handouts for Friday, Jan 25:
Resources for mathematics word processing:
- LaTeX: Latex is a fantastic system for writing mathematics. While it might appear more complicated than Open Office or Microsoft Word (as it is a document preparation system rather than a word processor), writing in Latex goes as quickly as with common word processing programs once you learn the basics. Further, nothing else even comes close to the quality of a document prepared with Latex.
- www.latex-project.org
- A nice introduction to the LaTeX structure and commands can be found here
- A large list of commands for LaTeX symbols can be found here. Section 1.2 of this document, on page 8, collects commonly requested symbols. If you are just starting out, I'd look there to see if your question can be answered.
- Open Office: Open Office is a full suite of office productivity software that is open source and free for download by anyone. Open Office Writer is the standard word processing program for Open Office and there is a Math program that allows for the typesetting of mathematical formulae for insertion as objects into documents in the Writer. If you can't or won't use Latex, this is a second option.
- Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is a full suite of office productivity software that is proprietary and you have to pay to use on your computer. Microsoft Word is the standard word processing program for Microsoft Office and there is an equation editor which you can install (much like the Math program for Open Office) that allows for the typesetting of mathematical formulae for insertion as objects into Word documents. This is a third option for word processing.
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