The list of topics below
will give you some idea of what schedule we have in mind for Mathematics 5 this
Winter. However, we may change the topics depending upon the interests of the
class, and if so, we will modify the schedule and hand out a new version. The
chapter references are to the draft manuscript Mathematics and Knowledge: Models of Reality by Dwight Lahr. We
will also use hand-outs that we list as Notes
in the schedule.
Week Topics References
#1 Jan 4 Visualization and
Quantification Chapter
1
#2 Jan 7, 9,
11 Abstraction, Idealization,
Truth, Logic Chapter 1,
Chapter 2
#3 Jan 14,
16, 18 Connectives, Thms, Prfs,
Paradoxes Chapter 2
#4 Jan 23,
24*, 25 Infinity, Zeno's Paradoxes Chapter 6
#5 Jan 28,
30; Feb 1 Primes('), Congs., Fermat's
Little Thm Ch. 3 (3.4, 3.5,
3.14, 3.15);
Ch.
4
#6 Feb 4, 6,
7* Euler's Thm, Codes(') Chapter 4
#7 Feb 11,
13, 15 Group Theory Rudel Notes
#8 Feb 18,
20, 22 Group Theory Rudel Notes
#9 Feb 25,
27; Mar 1 Einstein, Energy, 
Chapter
9 (9.10 and 9.11)
#10 Mar 4, 6 
;Wrap up; evaluations Final
Exam due Sat, 3/9
Notes:
* x-hour:
Thursday, 12:00-12:50.
Week #4: MLK holiday on Monday, 1/21 (no class that
day)
Week #6: Winter Carnival on Friday, 2/8 (no class
that day)
Mid-term Exam due in week #5.
Final Exam due on first day of finals: Saturday,
March 9.
Special schedules: MLK holiday Meet in x-hour in week #4
Winter
Carnival Meet in x-hour in week
#6
Last
week of term Meet Monday and
Wednesday in week #10
(') Check out
the Prime References webpage
on the Math 5 website for links on the web to information about primes. The page also has a link to the RSA website that contains information about the RSA Public Key algorithm for encoding and decoding
messages.