what is a mathematical excrusions course

by Jovanny Hyatt 6 min read

MATHEMATICAL EXCURSIONS, Fourth Edition, teaches students that mathematics is a system of knowing and understanding our surroundings, and explores a selection of topics from various areas in mathematics.

This course is a prerequisite or co-requisite for

This course satisfies the formal studies requirement where it is in force.

Description

The course is intended to provide exposure to a variety of mathematical ideas. The emphasis is on topics which are interesting and where the conclusion of a mathematical development can be understood with only high school algebra as background.

Topics covered

This varies with the instructor. Recent treatments have included; street networks, traveling salesman problem, polling data, voting systems, fair division problems, Fibonacci numbers, gnomic growth, golden ratio, tilings, Mandelbrot set.

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