Math 5400 Project topics for 2006-2007

This is the final list of topics and dates for presentations of projects to the class. I have added another column with links to materials that were presented to the class and then submitted to Peggi and Jen for assembling into a format that other students might use in their own classrooms. The original plan was to create a compact disc containing all of these materials for any student who wanted it. But this plan has been abandoned in favour of what you see here. I have uploaded the files to the course website and you can download them by clicking on the links in the right-hand column. Some students have not submitted materials for this purpose. For some others there is more than one link when, for example, handouts are also included. Many of these are in the form of PowerPoint presentations. Some are Adobe PDF files; some are Word documents. There is one Rich Text Format file, and in one (Betty Nelsons’), the pages submitted are scanned as photos. Every separate entry in the right-hand column is to a different file.

This page was revised May 6, 2007.

Presentation date	Student name	Topic	Links to additional material
Jan 22	Jeff Irwin	The development of the calendar	Click here
Jan 22	Louis Lim	The four colour problem	Click here
Jan 29	Jennifer Woodcock	The development of equation solving
Jan 29	Etleva Malltezi	Pi	Click here
Feb 5	Peggi Rieger	The development of trigonometry	Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here,
Feb 5	Melissa Giardina	The seven bridges problem	Click here
Feb 12	Carol Miron	Trig functions and the unit circle	Click here
Feb 12	Pierre Cuschieri	Galois and his theory	Click here
Feb 12	Betty Nelsons	The Golden Ratio	Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here,
Feb 19	Nader Abbasi	Platonic Solids	Click here
Feb 19	Malgorzata Puzniak	Stefan Banach	Click here
Feb 19	Mike Eden	Magic Squares
Feb 19	Antonia Katsinos	Which came first, the cross product or the torque?	Click here
Feb 26	Chris MacIsaac	Boolean algebra/set theory
Feb 26	Paul Attar	Infinity	Click here
Mar 5	Mario Soster	The Rhind Papyrus
Mar 5	Margarita Panayotova	Women in mathematics	Click here
Mar 5	Amanda Allan	The Development of Imaginary numbers
Mar 5	Samina Saleem	Fermat’s Last Theorem	Click here
Mar 5	Angela Tersigni	Fibonacci's Contribution to Mathematics	Click here
Mar 19	Vidac Curic	Child prodiges	Click here
Mar 19	Shirley Ting	Binary numbers	Click here
Mar 19	Anna Yoon	The distribution of prime numbers	Click here, Click here
Mar 19	Laxmi Goyat	Indian mathematics in the Vedic period	Click here
Mar 26	Lindsay Kallish	The Pythagorean Theorem	Click here, Click here, Click here
Mar 26	Radcliffe Heron	Mathematics and war
Mar 26	Danielle Richer	Development of trigonometry
Mar 26	Gaeun Kim	Chinese mathematics	Click here
Apr 2	Mike Cuda	Pascal’s Triangle
Apr 2	Efrah Ismael	Philosophy of mathematics	Click here
Apr 2	Kevin Smith	Sophie Germain	Click here, Click here, Click here
Apr 2	Ana Preder	Euclidean geometry	Click here