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TERM PROJECTS (300 points total)
There will be
an individual course project that students will have to produce during
the semester. This project should be about a mathematical topic encountered in a 300-level mathematics course.
50 points:
Project Proposal due March 17
March 24 (500-word PDF emailed by beginning of class)
50 points: Paper Draft
due Tuesday April 14 5pm (by email)
100 points:
8-10 minute oral presentation (by recorded video) on Tuesday April 28 130-3pm.
100 points:
8 to10 paged (2000-2500 words) paper/pdf due Tuesday May 5th by 5pm
Course
Project Assignment
Here is
the Spring 2020 Course Project Assignment.
Examples of Spring 2020 Course
Project Topics
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Srinivasan Ramanujan
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G.H. Hardy
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Agustin-Louis Cauchy
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Henri Poincaré
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
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π
Course
Project Grading Rubrics
Oral Presentation Grading Sheet
Paper Grading
Sheet
Guidelines
Here are some
helpful instructions on project papers in history of mathematics
courses (grabbed from V. Fred
Rickey)
1. The papers are to be on the history of mathematics. They can be neither all history
nor all mathematics. Each should contain a reasonably non-trivial piece of
mathematics as well as the history and background of that mathematics.
2. Enough expository material should be included so as to make the paper self-contained.
If you have doubts, ask a friend to read it. Having someone else read
your paper critically is the best way to improve the exposition.
3. You should use a variety of research materials and must give careful references to
your sources. You will want to use books and encyclopedias, but I especially
encourage you to use the journals (a necessity for B work). Your paper should
include a bibliography listing your sources and they should be cited in the body of
your paper when appropriate. The best sources to use are original sources, but,
admittedly, that is hard to do. Their use is, however, required for A work.
4. The paper must be prepared using a wordprocessor (you may write in symbols if
the wordprocessor you are using does not handle them); if you don't know how to
use one, now is the time to learn. Other issues such as the length, format, etc., are
up to you. Since you will be startled by this last comment, let me point out that
papers have a natural length. You are telling a story which needs certain
background, exposition, and detail. When that is successfully done, stop; you
have finished. You should turn in two copies of your paper as I intend to keep one
copy.
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