Home Page for Math 296
Skeletal descriptions of classes and links to all
TeX'd handouts
This is the home page for Math 296&F1,
"Introduction to Mathematical Research".
This class meets for the Spring 2002 semester on MWF 2 in 441
Altgeld.
The newsgroup for this course is accessible from this webpage:
uiuc.class.math296
My intention was to provide, at the very
least, an archive for all of the TeX-d handouts in the course and a guide to
the semester, class-by-class, but I've been so slothful that I will
compress the first 11 class meetings and four weeks into one lump.
Class Diary
The linked handouts include:
The first assignment was to find some problem or theorem that
you liked and (i) write it down with a proof, then (ii) change it
in some way and solve the changed problem, then (iii) change it in
some more substantial way so you couldn't solve it. There have also
been general reading assignments in the required books. On F 2/8, we
made a "field trip" to the mathematics library. Other trips will
happen later.
This is the line-up of speakers for the first go-round of
presentations and the "guest speakers" while I'm at Oberwolfach
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut
Oberwolfach :
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