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, including statistics, geometry and mathematics applied to computation or to science. Students who choose a B.S. degree in mathematics often couple it with a minor or second major in such related fields as computer science, physics, computer engineering and actuarial science. Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics This degree is frequently selected by students who wish to obtain both a mathematics major and a second major in a liberal arts subject. Recent mathematics graduates have taken a second major in such

social order.  As stability returned in the Middle Ages and then growth in the Renaissance, this memory of Rome became the basis for education:  the ideal citizen mastered what the old empire had bequeathed.  In fact, the first universities based their curricula around the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy) as outlined by Plato and Cicero.  The Early Modern, or Neo-Classical, period adopted Classical models even more closely, but with a

offline ray tracing to achieve visually appealing and realistic image generation while compromising on efficiency. This ray tracing project focuses on generating different images by introducing the triangle mesh object, optimizing the rendering performance of mesh objects by implementing a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) tree acceleration structure to efficiently organize and traverse the scene’s geometry, reducing the number of ray-object intersection tests needed and significantly improving

how projective planes are generated from affine planes, and demonstrate how the axioms of projective planes guarantee the necessary properties for gameplay. 2:30pm –  Break 3:00pm – Folding a Heptagon Jacob Roberts A long-standing problem in mathematics has been the construction of a heptagon. Proven to be impossible to construct with a straightedge and compass in geometry, mathematicians looked for other methods of construction. One of the methods found was origami. We will explore  origami, how

how projective planes are generated from affine planes, and demonstrate how the axioms of projective planes guarantee the necessary properties for gameplay. 2:30pm –  Break 3:00pm – Folding a Heptagon Jacob Roberts A long-standing problem in mathematics has been the construction of a heptagon. Proven to be impossible to construct with a straightedge and compass in geometry, mathematicians looked for other methods of construction. One of the methods found was origami. We will explore  origami, how

But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It seems to have shrunk during the holidays. The streets Are much narrower than we remembered: we had forgotten The office was as depressing as this. To those who have seen The Child, however dimly, however incredulously The Time Being is, in a sense

obtain seemingly random numbers is displayed. 3:30pm – Building and Exploring the Mandelbrot Set: A look into Complex Dynamics Paul Jean Fischer The Mandelbrot Set is notable for being arguably the most spectacular depiction of fractal geometry in recent history, but what is it and what makes its intricate structure so entrancing? In this paper we unpack the visually complex nature of the Mandelbrot Set by looking at its iterative process and describe its relationship to dynamical systems. After

math and geometry as well as coaching the girls’ soccer team. One of her passions includes math, “I have personally been good at math and it has always come easy to me.It is a subject that many people struggle with and do not like. I have always enjoyed teaching it to others and I want to be the one to teach them to understand and appreciate it.” Lyman studied for her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education at PLU while competing on the soccer team. She continued her graduate study and soccer

Capstone Seminar There is a discrepancy in the literature whether porous carbon electrodes store more electrochemical capacitance with a disordered or an ordered pore design. However, these materials have not been made comparably, so their capacitances cannot be fairly compared. We hypothesize that if we control the physical and electrochemical properties of disordered and ordered porous carbon electrodes, then the electrodes should have comparable amounts of capacitance regardless of pure geometry. To