Math 181, S96: Student Projects


Preliminary schedule for presentations of student projects. These are the project presentations scheduled so far:
9M (Tuesday, May 28)
9W (Wednesday, May 29)
  • Renteria: Sacred gothic architecture
  • Pedreschi and Edelman: Virtual tour of Stonehenge [Web]
    XM (Monday, June 03)
  • Murray and Stafford: The golden ratio and its applications
  • Oswald and Tester: Where did the triples come from? [Web]
  • Ghahremani and Lalanne: What about pi? [Web]
  • Maron and Sabota: Methods of construction of the Sri Yantra [Web]
  • Munsey and Smilkstein: The fascination with celestial bodies
  • Lopez, Hernández, Castellanos, Ramos, and Reyes: The golden mean and where it is found
    XW (Wednesday, June 05)
  • Savarese and Barbour: History of mathematical rigor
  • Sokolow and Cogan: The history of celestial navigation
  • McCormick: Euclidean and fractal geometry in the design of a multi-purpose building
  • Graves, Medina, Graham, Smith, and Deaver: A journey from Euclid's fifth postulate through the development to a new mathematics [Web]
  • Flanagan and Lukavsky: Boethius and Neo-Pythagoreanism

  • Revised 31 May 1996.