Some current links
Class plan: Continually updated |
Do log into Canvas and formulate project groups on your own.
Contact me if you need help. |
New files Summary of math overview My comments on BBC interview |
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Old (1898) book by Ball on Math.
History. Pdf, but it is also available as a free audio book on Librivox! Here is the TOC for easy lookup. |
Final Project The
groups must be fixed by Nov. 2 and the topics chosen by Nov. 8. Instructions for the final
project are here. |
Some useful project sources Contents
of Sherlock Holmes’ … book Possibly useful for
projects History talks on bbc
(Sautoy) link |
Quiz 1 material ·
Sample Maple
calculations (in html format) ·
The quiz itself due on
10/12/16 |
Math discussion in class 1. Continued fractions 2. Division algorithm 3. Chakravala algorithm 5. Evaluating Pi Maple file 6. Excel file for continued fractions |
Some interesting problems: arising
from Chakravala |
Some transcendence proofs |
Week of 11/14-18 |
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Essay on |
Essay of Brahmagupta’s Algebra |
The book |
The Chronology
of Ancient Nations Al Biruni |
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A very interesting link
to browse. I strongly recommend it!!
A new movie on Ramanujan’s
life is scheduled at 7:15 PM on Monday Oct. 24. Check details at this link.
An old short documentary on Ramanujan exists on YouTube. Check
here.
There are many other interesting
videos available on YouTube. Here is one more (longer).
A link to my web site from Spring
2016. Updated file links may be brought back to this page as needed.
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Check
out a BBC link discussing Indian Math. Our textbook author is
interviewed with two other Mathematicians. To be discussed in class on 9/2/16.
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A summary of class
discussion on overview of Mathematics. To be updated as needed.
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A useful text about
Mathematics in India.
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The source
book for continued fractions by C. D. Olds
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Viete’s Formula (wiki), Nested
radicals (wiki)
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An
interesting link about calculation of π. Another link about Ramanujan’s
work on π.
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More discussion of the Brahmagupta-Jayadeva-Bhaskara
algorithm (or the so-called Pell’s Equation): Selenius Paper. Some interesting related problems.