MATH 492 - Undergraduate Seminar

Instructor: Bernard Lidický
Office: 422 Carver Hall
email: lidicky -at- iastate.edu
Office hours: 10:10am - 11:00am W
Office hours: 1:10pm - 2:00pm T

Where: CARVER 128
When: Mon 3:10pm - 5:00pm
Final exam: Mon Dec 12 7:30-9:30 a.m.

Lecture syllabus
Textbook - PFB
Supplemental Textbook - MINI


Field trip talk


Announcements

Schedule

This is a log of what is planned
  1. Aug 22 - Intorduction

  2. Aug 29
    1. 2x Jacob Kottke and Amar Srivastava (PFB 1 - Six proofs of the infinity of primes)
    2. 2x Ali Vosburg and Nicholas Asjes (MINI 3 - The club of oddtowns)
    3. 2x Anna Bartels and Logan Briggs (PFB 39 - How to guard a museum)
    4. 2x John Sawatzky (PFB 21 - Fundamental theorem of algebra)


  3. Sep 5 Labour day

  4. Sep 12
    1. 2x Jesse Darlington and Emma Madsen (PFB 35 - Completing Latin Squares)
    2. 2x Matt Cleveland and Nick Wiges (PFB 4 - Representing numbers as sums of two squares)
    3. 2x John Brandon and Nathan Schwartz (PFB 3 - Binomial coefficients are almost never powers)
    4. 2x Avery Piraino and Tanner Boyle (PFB 43 - Of friends and politicians)


  5. Sep 19
    1. 2x Wentao Song and Runpeng Li (PFB 20 - In praise of inequalities)
    2. Cody Schmudlach (PFB 22 - One square and an odd number of triangles)
    3. Chunley Yuan


  6. Sep 26
    1. John Sawatzky - every finite division ring is a field
    2. John Sawatzky
    3. Alexandra Vosburgh - the math behind blackjack


  7. Oct 3
    1. Nicholas Wiges (MINI 19 - The End of The Small Coins)
    2. Anna Bartels (PFB 38 - Five-coloring Plane
    3. Avery Piraino (Jarbik's/Prim's algorithm)
    4. Chunlei Yuan (PFB Pigeonhole Principle)


  8. Oct 10
    1. Emma Madsen (The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube)
    2. Matthew Cleveland (PFB 26 - Buffon's Needle Problem)
    3. Logan Briggs
    4. Logan Briggs


  9. Oct 17
    1. Jesse Darlington
    2. Jacob Kottke
    3. Rumpeng Li
    4. Wentao Song


  10. Oct 24
    1. Nathan Schwartz
    2. Chunlei Yuan
    3. Chunlei Yuan
    4. Tanner Boyle - secret sharing and code theory


  11. Oct 31
    1. John Brandon - missed :-(
    2. John Brandon - missed :-(
    3. Cody Schmudlach - The secret agent and and the umbrella
    4. Nicolas Asjes


  12. Nov 7
    1. Jesse Darlington - German Tanks
    2. Nicolas Asjes - Kakea set
    3. Emma Madsen - Brouwer's fixed point theorem
    4. Natan Schwartz - Are these distances eclidean?


  13. Nov 14
    1. Nicolas Wiges - MINI 20 Walking in the yard
    2. Matthew Cleveland -
    3. Avery Piraino - PFB 32- Cayley's formula for the number of trees
    4. Runpeng Li -


  14. Nov 21 Thanks giving

  15. Nov 28
    1. Jacob Kottke - Boxes and prisoners
    2. Amar Srivastava -
    3. Amar Srivastava -
    4. Wentao Song - Ceva's theorem


  16. Dec 5
    1. Cody Schnudlach - MINI 15 only 2 distances
    2. Anna Bartels
    3. Alexandra Vosburgh - MINI 11 Checking matrix multiplication (using MINI 10)
    4. Tanner Boyle - RSA


  17. Dec 14 (7:30am-9:30am) Final Exam - John Brandon

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