Math 300       Writing for Mathematics      2014 spring

 

Fred Thulin

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Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (MC 249)

University of Illinois at Chicago

851 South Morgan Street

Chicago, IL  60607-7045

312.413.7872

 

 

Syllabus

 

Essay 1

 

Essay 2

Outline due week 5

1st draft due week 8

Final draft due week 10

Some Mathematics for Essay 2 [pdf] [tex]

 

Essay 3 [pdf] [tex]

Outline due week 9

1st draft due week 12

Final draft due week 14

Some Mathematics for Essay 3 [pdf] [tex]

 

LaTeX Help

 

LaTeX Resources

 

 

 

 

Links to Professor Baldwin’s Math 300 Materials

 

http://www.math.uic.edu/~jbaldwin/math300/index

 

Codes for Comments on your papers (pdf)

 

Note: the following are relevant to our Essay 1.

 

The Mathematics of Essay II

 

The Mathematics of Essay III

 

 

External Links

 

From +Plus online magazine of the

Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge:

 

An infinite series of surprises

 

For a quarter of a century, stretching from 1956 to 1983,

Martin Gardner wrote an extremely popular and influential monthly column called

"Mathematical Gamesfor Scientific American.

His work is a model of popular mathematical writing.

Here is a collection of a few of those columns:

 

http://maa.org/pubs/focus/mg.html