Internet Mathematica course
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg6773] Internet Mathematica course
- From: levasseuk at Woods.UML.edu (Ken Levasseur)
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I will be offering the course "Computer Algebra with Mathematica" this summer though the UMass Lowell CyberEd program. It is a 14 week, project-oriented course that encourages undergraduate research (both web-based and traditional) and might be just the course you or your mathematics majors are looking for if they want a summer course. Most importantly it is conducted over the Internet so you can work at it on your own time, at any place. The formal prerequisites are two semesters of calculus and one semester of programming, but I usually encourage students to take linear algebra or discrete mathematics prior to taking this course. After an immersion into the fundamentals of Mathematica (about one third of the course), I require students to work on a project in order to have a context in which to apply the software. If you are a faculty advisor, you would be welcome to supervise the selection of a topic with your student in order to monitor the quality of their experience. I would also be delighted to add any project ideas that you might have to the project database that I'm building - I just ask that they be submitted in a form similar to those already posted. If you know of any students who could benefit from this course, please refer them to the following URLs: UMass Lowell CyberEd (Registration): http://cybered.uml.edu Further information on the course: http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Math/m419.html Ken Levasseur's Web Page http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Math/LevasseuK.html Ken Levasseur Math Sciences UMass Lowell