MA501 - Topics in Geometry

Announcements

This course is for the doctoral students in the ACCLAIM project.

General Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Course Notes

Assignments

• Assignment #1
• Assignment #2
• Assignment #3
• Assignment #4
• Assignment #5

Gallery

• Glass by Caroline Best
• Extended Cuboctahedron by Brian Boyd
• Flag by Barbara Buckner
• Close Orbit Sunrise by Frank Edge
• Greenshoe by Craig Green
• Pool Table by Julianna Gregory
• Slicing a Sphere by Debbie King
• UT Library by Brenda Lackey
• Cube and Spheres by Sue Nichols
• Cones and Shapes by Christie Perry
• Putt-Putt Golf by Crystal Rice
• Cuboctahedra by Karla Willis

Additional Materials

• The Three-Dimensional Pythagorean Theorem
• Sketchpad Investigations
• Drawing Cubes with Maple
• Instructions for drawing cubes with POV-Ray, and resulting image
• Isometries in the Plane
• Drawing Hypercubes with Maple by Michael Haney
• Projection of a Cube onto a Plane
• Extra-Terrestrial Communication via Mathematics

Some Useful Websites

• NCTM Standards
• Geometry Archives at UT
• Geometry in Utopia II
• POV-Ray website
• Peanut Software homepage
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• NonEuclid
• FourD
• Shadows of the Intangible