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MAT 334 -- Dr. Jorg Peters -- Graphics, Modeling and Animation
Web site
MAT 333 -- Dr. Willem Fouché -- Number Theory, Pseudorandomness and Cryptography
Lecture notes
(.pdf)
MAT 319 -- Drs Kass and Ventura (Carnegie Mellon University), "Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data"
Public Lecture
by Dr Robert E. Kass (.pdf)
A
review article
(.pdf) forms the core material for MAT 319, "Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data", by Drs Kass and Ventura.
MAT 317 -- Dr.
Eduardo Mercado III:
Mathematical Models of Singing Whales
Dr. Mercado's Public Lecture
(MS PowerPoint, 3.3 Mb)
MAT 316 -- Dr. Fred Watson: A New View of the Universe
All files below are MS PowerPoint (.ppt). File size as indicated.
Folklore of the Sky
(3.5 Mb)
Big telescopes for a small world
(3.9 Mb)
In the face of the Sun – planets and transits
(3.0 Mb)
Forging the elements – the Sun and stars
(2.2 Mb)
James Gregory – Scotland’s Isaac Newton
(2.5 Mb)
Industrial strength cosmology
(4.3 Mb)
Cosmic illusions
(2.9 Mb)
RAVEing mad – dissecting our Galaxy
(5.9 Mb)
Astronomers behaving badly
(5.2 Mb)
Tomorrow’s Universe
(2.6 Mb)
MAT 315 -- Dr. Petrus Potgieter: Quantum Computation
Lecture Notes for MAT 315
(Adobe Acrobat PDF, 3.7MB)
MAT 314 -- Dr. Sarada Rajeev: Neither Newton nor Leibnitz - The Pre-History of Calculus and Celestial Mechanics in Medieval Kerala
All files below are Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). File size as indicated.
The Kerala School of Astronomy & Mathematics
(264 Kb)
The Yuktibhasha Calculus Text
(188 Kb)
Calculating the Circumference of a Circle - Chapter Six of the Yuktibhasha
(204 Kb)
An Algebraic Recursion Formula for Pi
(107 Kb)
Kerala Revisted (Rajeev's Public Lecture)
(390 Kb)
The Sociology of Kerala and The Hindu Religion
(251 Kb)
An Alternate Procedure for Calculating the Circumference of a Cirlce
(337 Kb)
Recursion as a Dynamical System and the Circumference of an Ellipse
(190 Kb)
MAT 307 -- David P. Blecher: Noncommutative Functional Analysis
Lecture Notes for MAT 307
(Adobe Acrobat PDF, 285 Kb)
MAT 304 -- John A. Burns: Computational Methods for Design
All files below are MS PowerPoint (.ppt). File size as indicated.
Lecture 1 - High Level Description of Applications
(11.7 Mb)
Lecture 2 – Some “Simple” Applications
(1.2 Mb)
Lecture 3 – Elementary Differential Equations
(1.4 Mb)
Lecture 4 – Introduction to Sensitivities
(1.7 Mb)
Lecture 5 - Design and Optimization Problems
(1.4 Mb)
General Lecture - From Nano-Technology to Large Space Structures
(11.7 Mb)