Mathematics 5
Revised Course Syllabus
Dwight Lahr
The list of topics below
will give you some idea of the tentative schedule for Mathematics 5 this Winter. However, the topics may change depending upon the
interests of the class, and if so, we will modify the schedule and agree on a
new version. The chapter references are to the draft manuscript Mathematics and Knowledge: Models of Reality
by Dwight Lahr.
Week Topics References
#1 Jan 4, 6 Visualization and
Quantification Chapter
1
#2 Jan 9, 11,
13 Abstraction, Idealization,
Truth, Logic Chapter 1,
Chapter 2
#3 Jan 18,
19*, 20 Connectives, Thms, Prfs, Paradoxes Chapter 2
#4 Jan 23,
25, 27 Infinity, Zeno's Paradoxes Chapter 6
#5 Jan 30;
Feb 1, 3 Primes('),
Congs., Fermat's Little Thm
#6 Feb 6, 8 Euler's Thm,
Codes(') Chapter
4
#7 Feb 13,
15, 17 RSA Algorithm Chapter
4
#8 Feb 20,
22, 24 Group presentations/reports('')
#9 Feb 27;
Mar 1, 3 Group presentations/reports('')
#10 Mar 6, 8 Wrap up; evaluations Final Paper
due Sat, 3/11
Notes:
* Week #3: MLK
holiday on Monday, 1/16 (Quiz in x-hour: Thursday,
Week
#6: Winter Carnival on Friday, 2/10 (no class that day)
Quiz on Thursday, January 19.
Mid-term five-page Paper due in
week #5.
Quiz on Wednesday, February 15.
Final seven-page paper due on first day of finals:
Saturday, March 11.
Special schedules: MLK holiday Meet in x-hour in week #3
Winter
Carnival No class on Friday in
week #6
Last
week of term Meet
Monday and Wednesday in week #10
(') Check out
the Prime Reference webpage primes.html
on the Math 5 website for links on the web to information about primes. Also
look at the RSA website www.rsa.com
for information about the RSA Public Key algorithm for encoding and decoding
messages.
('') Use the
library’s Math 5 Guide to Library Research at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~krescook/instruct/math5.W06.shtml