Undergraduate Seminar in Discrete Mathematics

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November 27, 2010 in General Engineering Courses / Maths, General Sciences

Instructors: Daniel Kleitman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Course Description: This course is a student-presented seminar in combinatorics, graph theory, and discrete mathematics in general. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication is emphasized, with participants reading and presenting papers from recent mathematics literature and writing a final paper in a related topic.

Student Projects

These projects are courtesy of the students named, and used with permission.

Student project files.
TOPICS AUTHORS
Tricolorability of knots (PDF – 1.0 MB) Kayla Jacobs
Integration: The Feynman way (PDF) Anonymous
Random walks and eventual returns (PDF) The Anonymous Heroes of Mathematics
Fundamental methods of numerical extrapolation with applications (PDF) Eric Liu
The RSA cryptosystem (PDF) Sylvia Robles
Surreal numbers (PDF) Paul Chou
Compression algorithms (PDF) Xing Yuan
Mathematical fallacy proofs (PDF) Xing Yuan

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