Freshman Seminar-SPRING 2014  LOVE AND MATH   Unlocking the power and beauty of mathematics  

TEXT "Love and Math," by Edward Frenkel, 2013. Available online (here)

First class meeting is on April 3, 2014 in 114 Multipurpose Science and Technology Building (MSTB114) 11:00-11:50 AM

FRESHMAN SEMINAR PROGRAM-DIVISION OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION SPRING (SPRING 2014) Scroll down to Physical Sciences

Welcome Message-email sent April 2, 2014 (pdffile)

"Cliff Notes" for Love and Math, Chapters 1 to 8 (pdffile)

"Cliff Notes" for "A Mathematician's Apology" sections 1 to 7 (pdffile)

Scan of "A Mathematician's Apology" sections 1 to 7 (pdffile)

"Cliff Notes" for "Symmetry and the Monster" chapter 2 (pdffile)

"Cliff Notes" for Symmetry (by du Sautoy), Chapter 1 (pdffile)

Meeting of April 3, 2014: Love and Math, chapters 1 and 2; A Mathematician's Apology, sections 1 and 2

Endnote 1 from Preface of Love and Math) Edward Frenkel, Don't let Economists and Politicians Hack your Math, Slate, February 8, 2013

Endnote 6 from Chapter 2 of Love and Math-Chapter 1 of the book) Sean Carroll, The particle at the end of the universe, Dutton 2003

(This turned up on a google search) Quarks in the looking glass

Meeting of April 10, 2014: Love and Math, chapters 3,4,5

Endnote 2 from Chapter 3 of Love and Math) Mark Saul, An episode in the history of Soviet mathematics, Notices American Mathematical Society, vol.46, November 1999 pp. 1217--1220

Endnote 3 from Chapter 3 of Love and Math George G. Szpiro, Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya and the "Jewish Peoples University,", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol.54, November 2007, pp1326-1330

Endnote 7 from Chapter 5 of Love and Math David Garber, Braid Group Cryptography World Scientific 2010 75pp

Endnote 8 from Chapter 5 of Love and Math Graham P. Collins, Computing with Quantum Knots, Scientific American, April 2006, pp. 57--63

Meeting of April 17, 2014: Love and Math, chapters 6 and 7

Endnote 4 from Chapter 6 of Love and Math S. Zdravkovska and P. Duren, Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics (Interlibrary Loan)

Endnote 4 from Chapter 6 of Love and Math S. Zdravkovska and P. Duren, Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics (AMS Bookstore)

Endnote 4 from Chapter 6 of Love and Math V.M. Tikhomirov, On Moscow Mathematics---Then and Now 11pp

Endnote 5 from Chapter 6 of Love and Math Yuly Ilyashenko, The black 20 years at Mekh-Mat (OOPS! This is in Russian!)

Endnote 1 from Chapter 7 of Love and Math Interview with Robert Langlands, Univ. of British Columbia, 2010 (22pp.)

Endnote 7 from Chapter 7 of Love and Math Mario Livio, The equation that couldn't be solved, 2005 (Ayala Science Library)

Meeting of April 24, 2014: The Riemann Hypothesis

The prime number theorem and the Riemann Hypothesis-A marriage of calculus and arithmetic Presentation at Marina High School, Huntington Beach, June 7, 2011

The prime number theorem and the Riemann Hypothesis Presentations at Fullerton College, July 29 and September 14, 2010

Prime Obsession Freshman Seminar Winter 2005

Meeting of May 1, 2014: "The Handshake Problem" presented by Cheryl Ooten

Handout for "Handshake Problem" here

Managing the MEAN MATH BLUES--Cheryl Ooten and Kathy Moore Amazon.com

Meeting of May 8, 2014: LOVE AND MATH, chapter 8

Endnote 1 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Robert Langlands, Is there beauty in mathematical theories? (45pp)

Endnote 2 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Barry Mazur, Conjecture (14pp)

Endnote 3 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Simon Singh, Fermat's Enigma (Ayala Science Library)

Endnote 11 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Richard Taylor, Modular arithmetic: driven by inherent beauty and human curiosity (9pp)

Endnote 12 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Henri Darmon, A proof of the full Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture is announced (5pp)

Endnotes 17,18 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Goro Shimura, Yutaka Taniyama and his time (13pp)

Endnote 19 from Chapter 8 of LOVE AND MATH Serge Lang, Some history of the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture (7pp)

Meeting of May 15, 2014: LOVE AND MATH, chapter 9; SYMMETRY AND THE MONSTER, chapter 2 (See the "Cliff Notes" above)

Endnote 5 from Chapter 9 of LOVE AND MATH Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers(Amazon.com)

Endnote 5 from Chapter 9 of LOVE AND MATH Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers(Book Review)

Endnote 5 from Chapter 9 of LOVE AND MATH Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers(Ayala Science Library)

Endnote 14 from Chapter 9 of LOVE AND MATH Andre Weil letter, 1940 (8pp)

Endnote on page 12 from Chapter 2 of SYMMETRY AND THE MONSTER Laura Toti-Rigatelli, Evariste Galois 1996 (Ayala Science Library)

Endnote on page 12 from Chapter 2 of SYMMETRY AND THE MONSTER Laura Toti-Rigatelli, Evariste Galois 1996 (Amazon.com)

Endnote on page 19 from Chapter 2 of SYMMETRY AND THE MONSTER George Sarton, Six Wings; Men of Science 1957 (Amazon.com)

Endnote on page 19 from Chapter 2 of SYMMETRY AND THE MONSTER George Sarton, Six Wings; Men of Science 1957 (Ayala Science Library)

Endnote on page 19 from Chapter 2 of SYMMETRY AND THE MONSTER Jean-Pierre Tignol, Theory of Algebraic Equations 1988 (Amazon.com)

Mark Ronan, Symmetry and the Monster. One of the greatest quests of Mathematics Ayala Science Library

Mark Ronan, Symmetry and the Monster. One of the greatest quests of Mathematics Amazon.com

Meeting of May 22, 2014: SYMMETRY, by Marcus du Sautoy, chapter 1 (see the "Cliff Notes" above)

Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry. A Journey into the Patterns of Nature Newport Beach Public Library

Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry. A Journey into the Patterns of Nature Amazon.com ($0.20 +$3.99 shipping

Some Interesting References

Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry. A Journey into the Patterns of Nature Book Review

Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament Book Review

Cedric Villani, Theoreme Vivant Book Review

Melvyn B. Nathanson, An American Mathematician in Moscow, or How I Destroyed the Soviet Union Article

Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner Book Review

Steven Strogatz, Writing about Math for the Perplexed and Traumatized Article

Gina Kolata, Ed., The New York Times Book of Mathematics Book Review

Gina Kolata, Ed., The New York Times Book of Mathematics Amazon.com

Meeting of May 29, 2014: "The Chinese Abacus" presented by Cheryl Ooten

Meeting of June 5, 2014: "Mathematics and Computers. Problems and Prospects" A public lecture by Ronald L. Graham, UC San Diego, given at the first USA-Uzbekistan conference on Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Fullerton, CA May 21, 2014

Power Point Presentation of Professor Graham's lecture (Courtesy of Professor Graham) pps file

A Web Site about Professor Graham click here