M.C. Escher: Circle Limit III

MAT 118: Mathematical Thinking

Spring 2002

Lectures MWF 11:35-12:30 Old Engineering 143

R2 (Naomi Edlin) Tue 11:20-12:15 Light Engineering 154

R3 (Naomi Edlin) Thur 12:50-1:45 Physics P117

R4 (Candida Silveira) Tue 5:30-6:25 Earth & Space 183

Course Description, including textbook, grading policy, and other administrative foo-foo.
A PDF version is available, too. This looks prettier, but requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other software.

Office Hours		email
Prof. Sutherland	Mon 1-3pm and Fri 1-2:30pm in Math P-143. I am around much more than that, and am happy to see you outside of those hours. Send an email or call if you want to be sure I will be available, or just come by my office in Math 5D-148.	scott@math.sunysb.edu
Naomi Edlin	Tue 2-3pm, Wed 5:15-6:15pm in the Math Learning Center	nedlin@ic.sunysb.edu
Candida Silveira	Wednesdays, 5-7pm in the Math Learning Center	candida@math.sunysb.edu

Estimated schedule of lectures and homework assignments, as of .
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Some web links you might find interesting or useful, related to the course.
- A number of Java Applets that go along with our text. Many of these are also on the course schedule page when we cover the related topic.
- Are we using the worst voting procedure?, an article in Science News from November, 2002. There are a number of links and references to other voting-related resources at the bottom.
- Two articles on voting by mathematician Don Saari: A Fourth-Grade Experience on his experience "teaching" voting issues to a class of fourth graders, and The Symmetry and Complexity of Elections, discussing Borda's method, Condorcet winners, and Arrow's theorem.
- A Java Applet which demonstrates log(MN) = log(M) + log(N).
- Ask Dr. Math's FAQ on loans and interest. There are additional links at the end of the document.
- Bunches of financial information from BankRate.com, intended for consumers. Contains current rates, various financial calculators, and articles with advice and definitions. (Also full of ads. Oh well.)
- Several links related to probability.
- The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and fractals.
- The three regular tilings, the eight semi-regular tilings, and the fourteen demi-regular (or polymorph) tilings, as well as other Tilings from MathWorld.
- The Platonic Solids, and Archimedian Solids from MathWorld, and lots of pages about polyhedra from the Geometry Junkyard,
- Some pages on fractal tilings.

More stuff will arrive here when there is more to put here. Until then, this page will remain the same, unless it changes. (I last made a change on , or thereabouts. )