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Presentations
Starting in week 4 (February 12), each class will include up to two 15-minute student presentations.
The topic of the presentation is identical to the topic of your first paper.
You should sign-up for an in-class presentation by February 2 and submit
your presentation topic by February 16.
Presentation Schedule
The first two presentations of every week are on Monday; the third and fourth, on Friday.
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1. David Briggs, Pythagoras |
2. Ramon Fernandez, Justifications |
3. Anita Mathes, Construction problems |
4. Lisa Beckel, Hippocrates' quadrature of the circle |
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1. Christina Domanico, Euclides' work in number theory |
2. Christina Spagnolo, Use of Euclidean postulates in construction |
3. Dustin Loew, Diophantus' Arithmetica |
4. Eric Dornicik, Archimedes' computation of π |
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1. Fallon Nugent, Geometry in ancient India |
2. Hou Li, Indian method of finding square roots |
3. Steven Lim, "Nine chapters" of Chinese mathematics |
4. Marie Milach, Omar Khayyam |
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1. Chris Arettines, Fibbonacci's "Liber Abaci" |
2. Jim Hoffman, Development of the Fibbonacci series |
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1. Molly Law, Galileo's study of the motion of projectiles |
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3. Melisa Bilgel, Descartes' work on roots of polynomials |
4. Chris Wolf, Descartes' theory as basis of calculus |
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1. Sean Ferguson, Newton's law of universal gravitation |
2. Katherine Cruceta, Newton's use of binomial theorem |
3. Anthony Rubbo, Leibniz's path to calculus |
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1. Olga Boykova, Prehistory of probability |
2. Camelia Medina, Bernoulli's work in probability |
3. Suzan Bilgel, Laplace's inductive reasoning |
4. Renee Goldfarb, "Student"'s statistics |
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1. Casey Necheles, Fermat |
2. Tom Ferretti, Fermat's and Euler's theorems |
3. Loren Sanso, Gauss's work in modular arithmetic |
4. Suren Grigoryan, Gauss and non-Euclidean geometry |
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1. Stephen Mancuso, Cauchy on limits |
2. Edward Cummings, Complex analysis |
3. Konstantine Anastasakis, Fourier series |
4. Solomon Bamiro, Karl Weierstrass |
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1. Dan Stelmach, Matrix operations |
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3. James Lynch, Unsolvability of quintic equations |
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1. Steve Mackey, Cardinal numbers |
2. Keisuke Yoshii, Set theory and the axiom of choice |
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