Kewl Math Projects
MAPLE labs for Calculus & Differential Equations - A collection of MAPLE labs.
The Ice Cream Project - A College Algebra project I created for NECC.
The Music Project - A College Algebra project I created for NECC.
A Mathematical A-Z Book - The final project I use when teaching Explorations in Mathematics for UMass Lowell.
Why Do I Need Calculus? - Two sample chapters from the workbook that I created for architecture, humanities and social sciences majors.
The Case of the Cooling Cadaver - A Newton's Law of Cooling Problem for Calc I Students that I gave my RPI ARCH/H&SS Calculus students (Fall 1999).
Projects - Problems in scaling, proportions, patterns, tiling, statistics, voting methods, game theory and linear programming that I created for my RPI Practical Math students (Spring 2000).
Calculus Thought Questions - With answers written by my Fall 2000 RPI ARCH/H&SS Calculus I students.
Math People
Interviews with Real People who use Real Math in their jobs - Done by my Behrend MATH 35 students in Fall 2007.
My Famous Ex-Math Geeks Page - My Fall 1999 RPI talk.
Mathematicians' Anniversaries - Birth dates, death dates, mathematician anniversary listings for every day of the year.
Women in MathThe Golden Mean
Golden Mean Presentation - One of my Summer 2002 UML talks (Note: this Powerpoint presentation uses some special characters that may not load correctly on all computers).
Goldennumber.net
Interesting Ideas - Includes the Golden Ellipse.
The Golden Mean & Fibonacci Numbers
Irrational Numbers
My Irrational Number Presentation - A Summer 2002 UML talk (Note: this Powerpoint presentation uses some special characters that may not load correctly on all computers).
Irrationals Chronology - The full version of my irrationals chronology, including references.
Pi Chronology
e Chronology
Phi Chronology
Square Root Chronology
The Chronology of the Development of the Concept of Irrational Number
Irrationals Chronology Reference List - Just the references.Ways to Estimate Pi
Note: These are html exports of MAPLE worksheets that I made to show the derivation and calculation of some of the different methods to calculate digits of Pi.
Estimating Pi as the area of 1/2 of a unit circle
The Gregory-Leibniz Method
Machin's Method - An adaptation of the Gregory-Leibniz Method which converges more quickly.
Newton's Pi Calculating Method
The Gauss-Legendre Method - This method converges very quickly and is in prominent use today.Perfect Numbers and Amicable Numbers
Note: A new, larger perfect number was recently found, so some of these pages may be outdated.
My Spring 1999 RPI talk about Perfect Numbers is available via email at rpimath@hotmail.com.
The Perfect Number Journey
History & Description
Multiperfect NumbersPrimes
Why Do People Look For These Big Primes?
Largest Known - A listing of the largest twin, Mersenne, primorial & factorial, and Sophie Germain primes.
First 10,000 Primes
Mersenne Primes - History, Theorems and ListsMath in Art
Oriental Rug Patterns
Appearances of Math in Art
Perspective
Tilings
Escher-Like Tilings - Made by my Fall 2007 MATH 35 students.
The World of Escher
Tilings and Tessellations - An introductory webpage on tilings.Fractals
Lots of Fractals
Still Need More Fractals?
Imaginary Numbers
Do Imaginary Numbers Really Exist?
Real and Complex Numbers
Mathematics Education
A Listing of College Level Standards and Guidelines for Math Education
The Mathematical Miseducation of America's Youth
Miscellaneous
A Neat Collection of Interesting Parametric Curves
Radians vs. Degrees
Last Modified
on Friday, November 30, 2007.