MTH130: Excursions in Mathematics

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Spring
Prerequisites:
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. These topics can involve parts of mathematics which are significant in public affairs; such as voting paradoxes, polling data, and scheduling methods. Other topics involve numbers or shapes to reveal beauty and elegance in mathematics.
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, Mandelbroit set.
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