Josh Laison
Math 130: Contemporary Mathematics
(back row: Dakota, Emily, Kristen, George, Zach, Scott, Rose, Bright, Haley, Ethan, Eliseo, Angela)
frot row: Sara, Amy, Suzie, Jon, Raleigh, Bethany, Emily, Kathryn, Andrea, Erika, Lisa, Gregorie, Sasha, Kelsey)
(down in front: David, Ellie)
(not pictured: Kristen)
- Course Procedures
- Daily Problems
- Web Links:
- The Mathematics Subject Classification,
from the American Mathematical Society,
and the searchable mathscinet version
- The Fibonacci Association and Fibonacci Quarterly
- 80 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
- The AKS Primality test
- The largest known prime number,
from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
- (warning, the prime is 16 megs!)
- The Prime Number Theorem
- The Clay Millenium Problems
- Examples of check digits
- The Official M.C. Escher website and symmetry artwork
- Regular and semi-regular tilings
- The life of Georg Cantor
- Mobius bands in biology,
industry,
knitting, ...
- A neat topology trick
- Stephen Colbert on topology
- Buy a Klein bottle here, and impress people at parties.
- Torus and Klein bottle games
- Minesweeper on a torus
- The Platonic solids
- Proofs of Euler's formula
- The regular polychora
- The Four-Color Theorem
- A 1-D Cellular Automaton Java applet.
- Play the game of life
here,
here,
and here.
- The last link has some incredible examples of initial patterns, such as
this,
this,
this,
this,
this,
and this.
- A fractal generator.
- Another fractal generator.
- Fractal images: Koch snowflake,
Sierpinski triangle,
Barnsley's fern,
Menger sponge
- The Chaos Game
- A neat discussion of geodesics.
- A globe applet
- Mandelbrot set and Julia set investigator, and some Mandelbrot movies, and
more movies.