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Great Ideas in Mathematics is different. Instead of focusing on mechanics and equation solving, the course emphasizes the key concepts underpinning mathematics.
Department Chair Assumes New Position Professor Frances Van Dyke
A chair in Professor Frances Van Dyke's office has been moved slightly so that it has a better view of an elm tree. The chair has been a fixture in the department for 18 years.
http://www.american.edu/cas/catalyst/issues/07fall.pdf Catalyst, American University’s science magazine, is designed to inform you about scientific research and results that affect us all. Catalyst is written by students, features many student projects, and aims to spark the scientific imagination of the AU community.
KERWIN MUST ENROLL IN FINITE MATH PENDING INVESTIGATION Cornelius Kerwin
TENLEYTOWN - President Cornelius Kerwin is under investigation for failing to fulfill his mathematics requirement while enrolled as a student at The American University.
Misleading Sign Leads Students Amiss signpost
WASHINGTON, DC - A new American University campus landmark has unintentionally misdirected unsuspecting students, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Meet our new faculty member Professor Jeff AdlerWhy math? I liked mathematics even as a small child, but this is not unusual; what’s unusual is that I failed to lose interest in the fourth grade
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CAS Connections Newsletter / October Edition
http://american.edu/cas/connections/07october4.cfm Instead of focusing on mechanics and equation solving, the course emphasizes the key concepts underpinning mathematics.
CAS Connections Newsletter / October Edition
Numbers Probe Fingers Jernigan
Charges continue to swirl around Professor Robert Jernigan as investigators pore through a cache of FBI documents recently seized from Jernigan's American University office. Jernigan is the alleged model for the lead character Dr. Charles Epps on CBS's hit show Numb3rs.
Tragedy struck this cloistered campus community last night with the disappearance of popular math student Stan Slapernarski. Although details are sketchy, it appears that Slapernarski (known as Slap throughout the university) fell victim to a Halloween stunt gone awry.
"Rock On!" With those words and a searing guitar riff, Artur Elezi, lead guitarist for Smashing Melons unleashed a heavy metal tour de force not seen since the Melons' legendary Farewell Concert nearly five years ago at Britain's Royal Hall.
For most people, mathematics and fun go together like ... well, like mathematics and fun. The Friday evening before Halloween, however, more than 50 AU students, faculty, and staff filled Ward 1 with excited applause and laughter ....
American University Math Professor I-Lok Chang, won the prestigious Taurus Prize for his work on the performance edge gained by athletes and intellectuals when they drink energy potions containing taurine, caffeine, and lots of sugar.
Pennsylvania
More Powerful than Texas
In the 2000 election, Jason Richwine (MATH '04)
understood more about the mathematics behind determining
voting power than most campaign advisors.Richwine, winner
of an American University 2003 CAS Research Award, used
math to determine the relative power of individual states
in presidential elections.
Two Views of the Pythagorean Theorem
The familiar Pythagorean theorem states that if a right triangle has legs a and b and hypotenuse c, then a² + b² = c². In geometric terms, we can think of a², b², and c² as the areas of three squares, one on each side of the triangle. Although this is one of the most useful facts in analytic geometry, and just about everyone has heard of it, not everyone knows a proof. Do you?
The Shapes of Numbers
It's easy to picture a Riemann surface.
Think of a sphere or a donut or a pair of pants.
Now imagine that the points on these surfaces
correspond in a precise way to complex
numbers. You get a mathematical structure that
seems to have applications all over the place in
mathematics.
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