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	Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
		A mathematical proof is demonstrative reasoning, but the inductive evidence of the physicist, the circumstantial evidence of the lawyer, the documentary evidence of the historian, and the statistical evidence of the economist belong to plausible reasoning.
		Everyone knows that mathematics offers an excellent opportunity to learn demonstrative reasoning, but I contend also that there is no subject in the usual curricula of the schools that affords a comparable opportunity to learn plausible reasoning.
		Finished mathematics presented in a finished form appears as purely demonstrative, consisting of proofs only.
	www.cut-the-knot.org /books/plausible/preface.shtml (2537 words)

	MainFrame: Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics
		Mathematics has often been presented as a paradigm of precision and certainty, but some writers have suggested that this is an illusion.
		This connects with the view that mathematics is essentially the logical derivation of conclusions which flow from the definitions of the mathematical concepts involved.
		One way to approach the application of classical mathematics to the real world might be to introduce additional constants in the first order set theory to refer to things in the real world, and then to instantiate general mathematical theories to apply to these objects.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/maths/faq031.htm (1544 words)

	2001-2002 Competitors to Watch
		Finished fourth at the 2001 Easterns in the 50 free...
		Finished 14th in the one meter and 15th in the three meter events at the 1999 Eastern Championships...
		Rebounded from injury in 2001 to finish third in the 1000 free and fifth in the 1650 free at Easterns...
	hcs.harvard.edu /~menswim/01-02/competitors.html (2441 words)

	User's Guide to the High School Course Catalog \|\| Indian Prairie School District
		Mathematics in District 204 is divided into four strands to meet the needs of all of its students.
		Because the field of mathematics is so much more readily quantifiable than any other curricular field in education, both high school mathematics departments rely strongly on standardized test scores and teacher recommendations to help place students into the classes wherein they may experience the greatest academic growth.
		The course is taught in conjunction with the University of Illinois (Mathematics 242).
	www.ipsd.org /hs_course-desc/usergd_math.asp (2010 words)

	Liberal Studies Mathematics Concentration For ITEP
		It meets all core and concentration requirements in mathematics for Liberal Studies majors who intend to teach in elementary or middle school or wish to become a mathematics specialist in elementary or middle school.
		Completion of this Concentration in Mathematics also fulfills the state's requirement for a Supplementary Authorization in Introductory Mathematics which would allow you to teach mathematics in grades K-9.
		A student who has finished a mathematics concentration may file for this Authorization when filing for their Multiple Subject Credential.
	www.csulb.edu /depts/math/options/LSMC1.html (211 words)

	Academics - Departments - Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It includes comprehension of whole numbers up to billions and deals with comprehension of areas of trapezoids and parallelograms and volumes of rectangular solids, reading, interpreting and construction of circle graphs together with some basics on statistics are the final topics of this course.
		A study of algebra (an introduction), geometry of plane and space figures, probability and statistics are all primarily developed.
		Mathematics 8 stresses the structure of algebra and the development of computational problem-solving skills.
	www.brentsubic.edu.ph /academics/math.htm (291 words)

	Discrete Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Discrete mathematics is a contemporary field of mathematics that is widely used in business and industry.
		It is sometimes called the mathematics of computers, or the mathematics used to optimize finite systems.
		The Mathematical Strands Chart shows the sequence of discrete mathematics units and provides links to more detailed overviews of the topics studied.
	www.wmich.edu /cpmp/parentsupport/discrete.html (627 words)

	Recommended Cryptography Books: Mathematics Section
		This requires self-referential mathematics, for which the author chooses LISP in all of his books.
		You'll recall that long ago, Russell and Whitehead attempted to develop all of mathematics from a few clearly stated axioms and rules of inference in pure logic.
		The book’s aim is to help the mathematically-minded pre-university or freshman year student broaden his/her mathematical interests, without using calculus (except for apologetically in one little section).
	www.youdzone.com /cryptobooks_Mathematics.html (1776 words)

	ACT Research : Information Brief 2002-3
		Students who finish the remedial course must take COMPASS as a posttest and must meet or exceed the cutoff before they are permitted to enroll in the standard course.
		The percentage of students who finished the remedial course (Indicator 1) ranged from 21% in remedial mathematics courses to 42% in remedial reading courses.
		In addition, students who finished remedial mathematics and writing courses were likely to score at or above the posttest cutoffs and, therefore, were likely to enroll in the corresponding standard courses.
	www.act.org /research/briefs/2002-3.html (1134 words)

	FINM - FAQ \| School of Economics and Finance \| Victoria University of Wellington
		I have just finished a bachelors degree with 200 level mathematics and statistics, and know little of finance or economics.
		The diploma is multi-disciplinary, leading to the masters of financial mathematics and possible further study, probably in risk management, finance or financial mathematics.
		You do not need to take a mathematics degree, but you need to do enough revision of school mathematics and substantial further reading to take a couple of 200/300 level mathematics/statistics courses at university to establish some ''street credibility'' in these areas.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /sef/pages/degrees/FINM_FAQ.aspx (1843 words)

	Myths/Mistakes/
		This picture of mathematical life is evidence that a humanist or social-historical account is truer to real life than traditional foundationist or neoFregean accounts.
		You have to guess a mathematical theorem before you prove it; you have to have the idea of the proof before you carry through the details.
		It shows that mathematical knowledge is fallible, like other knowledge.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~aleand/Hersh3.html (2434 words)

	AMS Website News 2006
		To increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences, the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is sponsoring an essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers.
		The Association of Women in Mathematics has approved a petition urging the removal of the vice-chair of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, Dr. Camilla Benbow, for reasons described in their petition.
		This distinction acknowledges his outstanding contribution to mathematics education: a rare combination of theoretical developments, empirical research, and practical applications that has had a major influence on the mathematics education community and beyond.
	www.ams.org /dynamic_archive/home-news.html (3838 words)

	Careers That Count : Mary Kay Tornrose
		In emphasizing conceptual understanding of mathematics, together with computational skills, Mary Kay gets students to "see mathematics as a dynamic study, not just as a finished subject." For instance, students often believe that, in mathematics, every question has only one answer.
		She is also hoping to develop new testing methods that give a more complete picture of students' mathematical skills than do the traditional multiple-choice examinations.
		She taught junior high school and high school for a number of years and also worked for a publisher of mathematics and science textbooks and materials.
	www.awm-math.org /ctcbrochure/tornrose.html (406 words)

	ITCEP - M.S. In Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Though students of the Master’s Degree Program in Mathematics and Math Education come from diverse backgrounds and continue onto various careers, the factor they have most in common is their love of mathematics.
		The program, housed in the School of Mathematics as a Master’s of Science Degree, requires students to take a year each of advanced math courses and math education courses, including a semester of student teaching in a high school.
		This means they were successful in their undergraduate programs, have a primary focus on mathematics, and a strong interest in teaching.
	www.itcep.umn.edu /teachers/msmath.php (484 words)

	Department of Mathematics at MIT \| Undergraduate Study: CI-M Information
		Be sure to have finished one by the end of your junior year; otherwise you will be put on Academic Warning by the Committee on Academic Performance (CAP).
		Covers the fundamentals of mathematical analysis: convergence of sequences and series, continuity, differentiability, Riemann integral, sequences and series of functions, uniformity, interchange of limit operations.
		Students confront puzzling and complex mathematical situations, through the acquisition of data by computer, pencil and paper, or physical experimentation, and attempt to explain them mathematically.
	www-math.mit.edu /undergraduate/ci-m.html (959 words)

	Prairie Division 97-98 Stats
		Dassel-Cokato, in their second year of competition in the Minnesota State High School Mathematics League, grabbed an early lead in the Prairie Division in a meet held Monday in Olivia.
		Dassel Cokato finished first in the Prairie Division in Meet 1 and led the Warriors 53-51 after the individual events in Meet 2.
		Team scores are determined on the basis of the scores of individual scores of 8 team members and the team event score for each team.
	www.boldfca.org /mlstats.html (964 words)

	Innovative Teaching Exchange: Using the Blackboard as Scratch Paper
		Robert Rogers, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia NY One of the aspects of mathematics that students often do not see in a course is the evolution of a proof from scribblings on scrap to a finished product.
		His current interests are in analysis, the history of mathematics (as it pertains to teaching preservice teachers), the history of calculus and analysis, and applications of mathematicas to political science.
		He is particularly interested in the communication of mathematics and tries to convey this in his classes.
	www.maa.org /t_and_l/exchange/ite8/scratchpaper.html (925 words)

	Guidelines for a Publishable Paper on Indian Mathematics
		Most of the Indian mathematics we've encountered so far is not very "advanced" by modern standards, and it should be fairly easy to explain it to a high school or college audience.
		But it is important to present your mathematical explanation in a way that respects the modern conventions of precision and rigor.
		After all, you yourself came into this class out of some curiosity about the history of mathematics (however ludicrous that idea may seem to you at 1 AM of the day the paper's due), and if you can tap into that same inquiring spirit in your reader, the communication will flow much better.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/History_Mathematics/guidelines.html (1812 words)

	Mathematics...Oh Joy! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Then there are people related to pharmacy, medical, etc. Those people, I won't even talk about because they think they're the smartest and most assiduous people; it's not even worth my time trying to explain why writing proofs is harder than writing subscriptions for common cold treatment pills.
		First, I had to obtain a prerequisite override (over Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning (300)) from Dr. Speer, a holder of an important position in the Undergraduate Mathematics Program (I don't exactly recall what his position was called.
		When I finished high school, I thought I was done with that type of math and seemed to have coped well with its absence during my first year.
	www.eden.rutgers.edu /~genekim/math.html (508 words)

	Philosophy of mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One answer might be Ultimate ensemble, which is a theory that postulates all structures that exist mathematically also exist phyiscally in their own universe.
		Where Quine suggested that mathematics was indispensable for our best scientific theories, and therefore should be accepted as a body of truths talking about independently existing entities, Field suggested that mathematics was dispensable, and therefore should be considered as a body of falsehoods not talking about anything real.
		This is in part because of the requirement of strong fragments of second-order logic to carry out his reduction, and because the statement of conservativity seems to require quantification over abstract models or deductions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics (6526 words)

	University of Pittsburgh: Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His thesis is entitled "Overreaction Behavior and Optimization Techniques in Mathematical Finance." He begins work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor starting on 1st of September 2006.
		The Mathematics Department was featured in a recent article in Economist magazine.
		The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has announced that University of Pittsburgh Mathematics PhD student Carolina Manica is a winner of the 2005 Student Paper Prize.
	www.math.pitt.edu (841 words)

	Untitled Document
		One of his honors research projects was a finite element analysis of a highway billboard in which he applied a wind force to the billboard and analyzed the stresses produced in its wooden posts, then changing soil types to see if there was any effect on stress levels or deflections.
		Joo Eun Kim (South Korea and Philippines) is graduating with honors in Political Science (International Relations) and has finished a second major in French; she has also done honors work in English, was a McGregor Scholar in her sophomore year, and is the editor of Chimes.
		For an Asian politics class Joo Eun researched Korean "comfort women" during the period of Japanese imperialism; she is currently doing honors research on the proper role of the judiciary under the U.S. Constitution.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/honors/students_grads/hongrads05.html (4223 words)

	Teaching Credenital in Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The other three concentrations in the Mathematics degree are allowed provided that Math 302, 401 and 402 are completed as electives.
		If a student has completed their degree at another institution, the "cognate" portion of the major is not required, but coursework equivalent to the remainder of the major needs to have been taken.
		A GPA in mathematics courses of at least 2.7 with an emphasis on strong performance in upper division courses.
	nsm.fullerton.edu /math/mathteach.html (369 words)

	Financial Mathematics: Students - Stanford University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yongyang Cai is simultaneously pursuing a PhD in SCCM and an MS in Financial Mathematics at Stanford.
		His interests are the mathematics of probability, stochastic time series analysis, statistical modeling and clustering techniques and broadly defined quantitative risk management.
		Matthew Leduc is concurrently pursuing a M.S. in Financial Mathematics and a M.S. in Statistics.
	finmath.stanford.edu /people/students.html (3149 words)

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		At Iowa State University (ISU), I finished a research project in which a stochastic control problem was solved.
		I was admitted in 2002 after finishing the course Advanced Calculus (Math 414) with the highest score in the class.
		From April 2003 to December 2003, I finished a research project under the supervision of Dr. Ananda Weerasinghe.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~qmeng/temp/Apply04/CMU/statement04.doc (1146 words)

	On Scientists and Science
		The book is written in mathematical language and the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders hopelessly through a dark labyrinth.
		It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it.
		Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/vl/notes/science.html (1022 words)

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		Any students interested in Mathematics and Computer Science are invited to join the club.
		Any students interested in participating mathematics contests, CUNY and AMATYC Contests, are welcome to join the BCC Mathematics team.
		They may be challenging but this is the best way of learning new problems and enhance your mathematics problem solving skill.
	www.bcc.cuny.edu /mathematicscomputerscience/MClub.htm (218 words)

	Math Students Continue Putnam Exam Success
		It is now the fifth year out of the last six that a Lafayette team has finished in the top 15 percent, including a 5 percent finish in 2002.
		Ekaterina Jager ’06 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), who is pursuing bachlor of science degrees in electrical and computer engineering and math and economics, ranked 552nd in the nation with 19 points.
		The math department sponsors a Problem Solving Group that meets each week to discuss and solve mathematics problems, which helps students prepare for the Team Barge and Individual Barge competitions, the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC) Math Contest, and the William Powell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/8745 (479 words)

	Math 105, History of Mathematics
		We have many mathematical treatises from the later civilizations, but these are usually in a completed form which leave out the development of the concepts and the purposes for which the mathematics was developed.
		study the mathematics of various different civilizations, their conception and use of mathematics, and how the historical conditions of those civilizations affected and were affected by mathematics
		Heron's mathematics, Nicomachus's arithmetic, Diophantus' abbreviations and notation
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/ma105 (644 words)

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