Progression

Survey of topics

WkDateTopics and activitiesReadings
11/25Introductions
1/27$\LaTeX$: first contactTemplate for HW1
21/30What are numbers?
2/01A construction of relative integers
2/03Rational numbers
32/06Numbers and geometry
2/08Numbers and magnitudes in the time of PythagorasA Light Dance on the Dust of the Ages
2/10Ratios and commensurability
42/13Numbers, magnitudes and proportions: wrap-up
2/15Achilles, the Tortoise and Riemann rearragementsOn Zeno's Paradoxes, by W. C. Salmon
2/17Zeno's paradoxesParmenides, by B. Russell
52/20On Riemann's function $\zeta$
2/22Introduction to Logic
2/24Aristotelian logic: categorical propositions
62/27Aristotelian logic: syllogisms
3/01Truth tablesWRC class visit
3/03Contrapositives and Modus ponens
73/06Overview of final assignmentsWISE clase visit
3/08Swem Library visit: research instruction session
3/10OH - Discussions on final projects
3/11-19No ClassSpring Break
83/20Cardinality, infinite sets
3/22Swem Library visit: special collections
93/27Brussels sprouts and the Euler characteristic
3/29No ClassIndividual meetings
3/31Bibliography with $\LaTeX$
104/03Identity, equity and ideology in Mathematics, I
4/05IEIM, IIGuest lecture by A. Moore (V. Tech.)
4/07IEIM, III - Bibliographies
114/10Final papers workshop
4/12Final papers workshop
4/14IEIM, IV - Discussion of journal entries
124/17IEIM, V - Class discussion
4/21IEIM, VI - Group work
134/24IEIM, VII
4/26IEIM, VIIIGuest lecture by A. Moore (V. Tech.)
4/28IEIM, IXGuest lecture by A. Moore (V. Tech.)
145/01IEIM, X - Wrap up
5/03Introduction to knots and links
5/05Experiments with the Jones invariant
5/10Final papers due by 5pm