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Use the links to the left to access course information and materials. See below for course updates and news. Mathematics for Liberal Arts II is a mathematics course for non-math, non-science majors. It covers a variety of topics in mathematics including, but not limited to, numbering systems of ancient civilizations, linear and exponential models, financial mathematics, statistics, and the history of mathematics.
History of Mathematics Web Sites There is a more than ample amount of material related to the history of mathematics to be found on the Internet. I have include just a few of my favorite sites. Simply click on 'Related Web Sites' button at the left. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, then try to 'search' the web. I have included a link out. Simply click on the 'Search' button at the left.
About your Instructor I hold a Master of Science (MS) degree from West Virginia University in mathematics. I like to tell people my undergraduate (BS) degree, which is also in mathematics, is from a small private Catholic college that is not Notre Dame. Actually, it is from the Franciscan University. I also have an AA degree from Jefferson Community College in Electronics Engineering. Plans to complete my terminal degree (the Ph.D. in the History of Mathematics) are dependent upon finding someone who is willing to be a director for my studies. My favorite subject areas of mathematics are, of course, the history of math and number theory. The classification of the natural numbers, i.e. determining if a number is a prime or a composite, if it is perfect or amicable, if it is a Fermat prime or a Mersenne prime, . . . , and things such as 'prime words' are of special interest to me. Studying about the history of mathematics is something I am self-taught at and thoroughly fascinated by. Through the coming months I will be adding many things to this Web site related to these topics and other things of mathematical interest. I am of Irish and English heritage, and display my pride, much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues, by using a lengthy name. Guess which one of the last two names I use is Irish and which is English. I'll bet you guessed wrong. There is a town in north Dublin county named 'Lusk'. (I know, there is one in Wyoming too.)
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