Why Do Math? a website that
explores recent applications of mathematicsThe Clay Mathematics Institute,
sponsors of the Millennium
Prize Problems
About the
Fields Medal, including a link to a list of past winners and their work
Sept. 17:
Organizational Meeting and
Flatland, the Movie Sept. 24:
Calvin students Nate De Jong, Joel Baker, Ben Dekker and Greg Clark.
Topic: Rigid structures in 2 dimensions
Oct. 1:
Brad Smith.
ISRI inaugural
lecture, “The Art of Science”
Oct. 8:
Prof. Michael Bolt.
Topic: Escher's
Print Gallery and complex analysis
Oct. 15:
Prof. Christopher Moseley. Topic: Topology and the Poincare Conjecture
Oct. 22:
Prof. Thomas Scofield.
Topic: Modular arithmetic, number theory
and RSA encryption
Oct. 29:
No Meeting—Academic Advising Break
Nov. 5:
Prof. Todd Kapitula.
Topic: Chaos in dynamical systems
Nov. 12:
Nova “Hunting the Hidden Dimension”
Nov. 19:
Prof. David Laverell.
Topic: Infinity
Nov. 26:
No Meeting—Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 3:
Prof. Jim Turner.
Topic: Polyhedra
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Thomas L. Scofield
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin College