MAT 331: Mathematical Problem Solving with Computers

Organizational Information

• About the course (also in pdf).
• The Course text, also in PDF.
• Chapter 0: Preliminaries (also PDF)
• Chapter 1: Curve Fitting (also PDF)
• Chapter 3: Cryptography (also PDF)
• Chapter 2: A Glider Model (also PDF)
• Chapter 4: Turtles and Fractals (also PDF)
• You can download maple for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Solaris from softweb. You can also use Maple at any SINC site, or via the Virtual SINC site.
• There is a discussion board for this class at Piazza.

Maple Worksheets

• Maple Worksheets from each class are here.
• You might find it useful to read about loading a file from the web into maple.

Exercises:

• All problems (PDF).
  • Additional data files and so on are here.
  • First set (PDF) (problems expire 2/6 & 2/13)
  • Second set (PDF) (expires 2/20)
  • Third set (PDF) (expires 2/27)
  • Fourth set (PDF) (expires 3/6)
  • Fifth set (PDF) (expires 3/15)
  • Sixth set (PDF) (expires 3/29),
  • Seventh set (PDF) (expires 4/12),
  • Eighth set (PDF) (expires 4/12),
  • Ninth set (PDF) (expires 4/12),
  • Tenth set (PDF) (expires 4/19),
  • Eleventh set (PDF) (expires 5/3),
  • Twelfth set (PDF) (expires 5/10),
• To hand in an exercise, please use this page.

Projects

• Project 1(pdf) (due 3/6), and the associated data files. There is a data file for each student, named by NetID.
  Don't forget to explain what you are doing quite clearly. This counts as much as getting the correct answers.
• Project 2(pdf) (due 4/30) is on encryption.
• Project 3 is a qualitative study of a motorized glider, You might want to look at my analysis of the case k=0.9, which is available as either a pdf file or a maple worksheet. Feel free to crib whatever you want from it.
• To hand in your project, use the exercise submission page.