MCS-115 The Nature of Mathematics homepage

MCS-115 homepage	Assignments and class schedule	Useful Links Archive
Tentative Schedule	Homework Guidelines	Project
Karl Knight	Course description	Carolyn Dobler

Office Hours:
- Karl Knight (Olin 312, karl@gustavus.edu, 507.933.7479)
- Carolyn Dobler (Olin 309, dobler@gustavus.edu, 507.933.7481)

Tentative Test Dates
- Wednesday, Feb 24, evening
- Wednesday, March 17, evening
- Monday, April 19, evening
- Final: Saturday, May 22, 3:30-5:30 in Nobel Auditorium

Featured Useful Links
- General links
  - Textbook's webpage (requires registration)
  - What is mathematics? (an article by R. Lewis, Fordham)
- Rubber Sheet Geometry (5.1)
  - Turn an inner tube inside out
  - Perplexing Pencil Puzzle
  - Sculpture inspired by topologically interesting surfaces
    - Helaman Ferguson
    - Carlo Séquin's links to similar artists
- Möbius band and Klein bottle (5.2)
  - Möbius band
  - Klein bottles
    - Klein bottle you can rotate (Mathworld)
    - Pictures of Klein bottle
    - Klein bottle image (John Sullivan)
    - Another good picture of a Klein bottle
    - Movies of Klein bottle (various formats)
    - Large Klein bottle(from movie)
    - Klein bottle with grid
    - Klein bottle in 4D space (Banchoff)
    - Klein bottle products
    - Torus and Klein Bottle Games
- John Conway's Game of Life (6.2)
- Fractals and Chaos Game (6.3)