The content will be the integration of geometries on plane, sphere, and other surfaces, presented through problems which emphasize the meanings in the geometry through student investigations, small group learning, and writing assignments. In addition, there will be talks by geometers at Cornell describing recent applications of geometry and the eight undergraduate geometry courses at Cornell. Presented by Professor Victor Katz , this short course will emphasize that these two subjects have been closely related from their origins, and that one should always keep that in mind when teaching at all levels. In celebration of the bicentennial of West Point, this conference will explore all facets of the History of Undergraduate Mathematic in America. There will be talks on the role that West Point has played in the development of undergraduate mathematics education in this country, but the conference is intended to include everything related to the development of undergraduate mathematics including textbooks, curricula, libraries, teachers, teachng methods, and the like.
Contributed papers are welcome.
It will provide them with the necessary background and support to adapt the Workshop Precalculus materials for use in their own environments. Faculty from high schools, community colleges, four-year colleges and universities are encouraged to apply. This workshop, presented by Professor William Dunham , examines a collection of mathematical landmarks from the middle of the seventeenth through the end of the nineteenth centuries. The theorems are the orginal work of such towering figures as Newton, the Bernoulli brothers, Euler, Gauss, and Cantor and come from the fields of analysis, number theory, algebra, geometry, complex variables and the theory of sets. They give historical perspective to topics encountered in college mathematics, and some can be transferred intact to the undergraduate classroom.