Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:40 – 4:30 in KY 061

What you need to know:

• Course Syllabus
• Course Schedule
• Worksheets and Assignments
• Information on Mathematica Access
• Guidelines for the course projects
• A link to Blackboard

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First day of class: September 1
• Quiz: September 24 October 8
• Mini-project topic: October 1 October 15
• Mini-project due: October 15 November 5
• Final project topic: November 19
• Final project due: December 3
• Last day of class: December 10

Office hours:

I am happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during my office hours. I have official office hours as posted on my schedule. In addition, you are welcome to make an appointment or stop by my office in Kiely 409 at any time.

Course links:

• Wolfram Demonstrations Project — Browse to see what mathematica can do.
• Past columns by Donald Piele
• An introduction to and bibliography about combinatorial games
• Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• Project Euler, a list of math problems hard to solve without a computer.

Mathematica Resources:

• Mathematica Screencasts and tutorials
• Mathematica broadcasts
• Computational Recreations in Mathematica by Ilan Vardi — A moderate-to-advanced resource with topics similar to those in this class. **On reserve in the library**
• Mathematica in Action by Stan Wagon — A beginning-to-moderate introductory resource with additional topics you might decide to investigate. **On reserve in the library**
• An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica by Paul Wellin, Richard Gaylord, and Samuel Kamin — A moderate introduction to programming in Mathematica. **On reserve in the library**
• Computational discrete mathematics : combinatorics and graph theory with Mathematica by Sriram Pemmaraju and Steven Skiena — A guide for using Mathematica to do combinatorics and graph theory. **On reserve in the library**
• Schaum's Outline of Mathematica by Eugene Don — A beginner's introduction to using Mathematica for calculations.
• Mathematica by Exampleby Martha L. Abell and James P. Braselton — A book guiding you through learning Mathematica by example.
• Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics and Graphics by Heikki Ruskeepaa — An introductory-to-moderate general resource, mostly for calculations.
• Advanced examples of what Mathematica can do
• Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers by Thomas B. Bahder — An advanced resource to understand how to use Mathematica to solve research problems.
• The Student's Introduction to MATHEMATICA by Bruce F. Torrence and Eve A. Torrence — Introduction to and examples of Mathematica in Calculus, Precalculus, and Linear Algebra.