Wk | Date | Topics and activities | Readings |
1 | 1/25 | Introductions | |
1/27 | $\LaTeX$: first contact | Template for HW1 | |
2 | 1/30 | What are numbers? | |
2/01 | A construction of relative integers | ||
2/03 | Rational numbers | ||
3 | 2/06 | Numbers and geometry | |
2/08 | Numbers and magnitudes in the time of Pythagoras | A Light Dance on the Dust of the Ages | |
2/10 | Ratios and commensurability | ||
4 | 2/13 | Numbers, magnitudes and proportions: wrap-up | |
2/15 | Achilles, the Tortoise and Riemann rearragements | On Zeno's Paradoxes, by W. C. Salmon | |
2/17 | Zeno's paradoxes | Parmenides, by B. Russell | |
5 | 2/20 | On Riemann's function $\zeta$ | |
2/22 | Introduction to Logic | ||
2/24 | Aristotelian logic: categorical propositions | ||
6 | 2/27 | Aristotelian logic: syllogisms | |
3/01 | Truth tables | WRC class visit | |
3/03 | Contrapositives and Modus ponens | ||
7 | 3/06 | Overview of final assignments | WISE clase visit |
3/08 | Swem Library visit: research instruction session | ||
3/10 | OH - Discussions on final projects | ||
3/11-19 | No Class | Spring Break | |
8 | 3/20 | Cardinality, infinite sets | |
3/22 | Swem Library visit: special collections | ||
9 | 3/27 | Brussels sprouts and the Euler characteristic | |
3/29 | No Class | Individual meetings | |
3/31 | Bibliography with $\LaTeX$ | ||
10 | 4/03 | Identity, equity and ideology in Mathematics, I | |
4/05 | IEIM, II | Guest lecture by A. Moore (V. Tech.) | |
4/07 | IEIM, III - Bibliographies | ||
11 | 4/10 | Final papers workshop | |
4/12 | Final papers workshop | ||
4/14 | IEIM, IV - Discussion of journal entries | ||
12 | 4/17 | IEIM, V - Class discussion | |
4/21 | IEIM, VI - Group work | ||
13 | 4/24 | IEIM, VII | |
4/26 | IEIM, VIII | Guest lecture by A. Moore (V. Tech.) | |
4/28 | IEIM, IX | Guest lecture by A. Moore (V. Tech.) | |
14 | 5/01 | IEIM, X - Wrap up | |
5/03 | Introduction to knots and links | ||
5/05 | Experiments with the Jones invariant | ||
★ | 5/10 | Final papers due by 5pm |