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Welcome to the Math Club home page!
The math club meets once a week in the Winter term, on Thursday evenings for about an hour. It is intended for anyone interested in mathematics, whether they are a math major or not.
At each meeting a speaker will discuss an interesting idea in mathematics. We try to pick topics that can be understood without much background. An ideal topic is one which starts with something simple, and by exploring its twists and turns, leads to something unexpectedly deeper.
The goal is to show mathematics the way that mathematicians see it: a living subject full of deep and intertwining ideas, growing naturally out of our desire to understand the fundamental concepts of space and number.
| Date | Topic | Speaker | |||
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| Jan. | 26 | Formulas for the n-th prime number | Mike Roth | ||
| Feb. | 2 | A Game of Set | Greg Smith | ||
| 9 | Ellipses and Elliptic Curves | M. Ram Murty | |||
| 16 | Möbius Inversion | Jamie Mingo | |||
| Mar. | 1 | The Brachistochrone | Ivan Dimitrov | ||
| 8 | The Winding Number (and applications) | Mike Roth | |||
| 15 | The Empty Set | Greg Smith | |||
| 22 | The one-sentence proof | Ivan Dimitrov | |||
| 29 | Recursion Theory and Undecidable Problems | Ben Cohen Wallace | |||
| Apr. | 5 | How Google works | M. Ram Murty |
The meetings are Thursdays in Jeff 118 from 17:30–18:30.
To suggest a topic for the Math Club, or to find out further information, please email Ivan Dimitrov, Mike Roth, or Greg Smith .
| Web Site of the Week |
| Check out one-minute-math; a collection of short videos built around mathematical topics (although intended for a popular audience). |
| Winter 2012 |
| Queen's University |
| Kingston, Ontario |