From Professor Carl Fitzgerald: I am organizing a Senior Seminar in
Mathematics (1 unit) that may be of interest to your students.
The title is "News of Ancient
History." The topics include the Parthenon, Archimedes' "The
Method," longitude, the solution of Fermat's Last Problem and
Galileo. In each case there will be some background presented, a
Nova program shown that discusses the new developments on the
historical subject and some discussion. The first meeting is on Tuesday,
October 7, from 3:00 PM to 4:50 PM in room AP&M B412.
There will be five meetings.
Weekly homework is due Thursday at 5 pm. Homework may be turned in to the hw
box on the sixth floor of APM, or directly to your TA in Section.
Write neatly, preferably no more than one or two problems per page, with pages
stapled in order.
Feel free to collaborate on homework, but write up your own
solutions. Copying homework of others is not permitted.
Instructor/TA information:
Professor: Ron Evans
Email: revans at ucsd.edu
Office Hours: MWF 5:15 - 6:30 pm in APM 7349
Lecture: MWF 3:00 - 3:50 pm in U413-2 (at the east end of Lyman Ln)
Teaching Assistant: Tom Petrillo
Email: tpetrill at math.ucsd.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday 11:30 am - 1:00 am, Thursday 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, and
Monday 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, in APM 6434.
Final Exam:
Friday, December 12, 2008, from 3 pm to 6 pm.
All exams are closed book, and are in U413-2.
Do your own work on exams--academic dishonesty
is taken very seriously.
Bring bluebooks for all exams,
including the final.
