MA2910
Laboratories in Mathematical Experimentation
Spring 2011

• For cobwebs (Ch.1): cobwebnew.nb
  
• Chapter 1: iterlin.nb
  
• Chapter 1: iterlin2.nb runs iterations using exact numbers, displayed with a specified precision.
  
  
• Chapter 5: Chr.nb
  
  
• Chapter 2: chapter2.nb
  
  
• Chapter 3: euclidean_new.nb
  
• Chapter 3: euclidean.nb
  
  
• Chapter 4: primesnew.nb
  
  
• Spirographs: spiro.nb(working) and spiro_draw.nb(untested)
  
  

Other Useful Stuff

• sampleplots.nb (a notebook with sample plotting commands)(old version, may need to be revised)
  
  
• Daily Investigation Summary Form
  
  
• Writing Your Report:
  
  
  • Tips for Writeups
    
    
  • Checklist for write-ups
    
    
  • Common math. vocabulary
    
    
  • Other Advice for Writing
    
    • Crannell at Franklin and Marshall College
      
    • Kleiman at MIT (sections 2,3,4 are applicable to this class)
      
    • ``Fumblerules of grammar'' - by William Safire
      
    
    
• Computer Basics handout (old version, useless except for amusing the old folks)