HNRS 13
Fantastic Voyage: From Homer to "2001"
Description: Seminar, four hours. Preparation: high school algebra. Designed for College Honors students. Teaches nonmathematicians to love mathematics and to see mathematics as mathematicians do, not as means to end, but as beautiful and artful in its own right, including elementary number theory and study of whole numbers. Development of rich and elegant theory of prime numbers, factorization, and modular arithmetic. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0