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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Mathematical Modeling (Fvsu), Samuel Cartwright, Bhavana Burell
Mathematical Modeling (Fvsu), Samuel Cartwright, Bhavana Burell
Mathematics Grants Collections
This Grants Collection for Mathematical Modeling was created under a Round Thirteen ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.
Each collection contains the following materials:
- Linked Syllabus
- Initial Proposal
- Final Report
Σ-Ary, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Mathematics Department
Σ-Ary, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Mathematics Department
Math Department Newsletters
No abstract provided.
The Laws Of Complexity & The Complexity Of Laws: The Implications Of Computational Complexity Theory For The Law, Eric Kades
Eric A. Kades
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Seduction Of Curves By Allan Mcrobie, Hans J. Rindisbacher
Book Review: The Seduction Of Curves By Allan Mcrobie, Hans J. Rindisbacher
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
This review emphasizes, as does the compelling and beautiful book, The Seduction of Curves by Allan McRobie, the “lines of beauty” that link art and mathematics. McRobie and his collaborator on the indispensable visuals of the volume, Helena Weightman, succeed admirably in connecting theoretically and visually the mathematical field of singularity or catastrophe theory and its graphical representations on the one hand and the seemingly intersecting lines around the volumes of the human body in the artistic representation of the nude. This book thus constitutes a creative and illuminating overlap of mathematics and art that lets the practitioners on both …
Mathematics Out Of Nothing: Talking About Powerful Mathematical Ideas With Children, Matthew Oldridge
Mathematics Out Of Nothing: Talking About Powerful Mathematical Ideas With Children, Matthew Oldridge
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Parents and educators have powerful opportunities to introduce children to big mathematical ideas, when those ideas become necessary. Children are capable and curious. They don’t need to be sheltered from big mathematical ideas. Bring out mathematical ideas when kids are ready, or when they are needed. This article describes one such instance, when I helped my six-year-old son move beyond zero in the negative direction when subtracting.
Mathematics Versus Statistics, Mindy B. Capaldi
Mathematics Versus Statistics, Mindy B. Capaldi
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Mathematics and statistics are both important and useful subjects, but the former has maintained prominence in the American education system. On the other hand, statistics is more prevalent in daily life and is an increasingly marketable subject to know. This article gives a personal history of one mathematician’s bumpy road to learning and teaching statistics. Additionally, arguments for how and why to include statistics in the K-12 and college curricula are provided.
On Free-Type Rigid C*-Tensor Categories And Their Annular Representations., B. Madhav Reddy Dr.
On Free-Type Rigid C*-Tensor Categories And Their Annular Representations., B. Madhav Reddy Dr.
Doctoral Theses
No abstract provided.
Introduction Of Infinite Series In High School Level Calculus, Ericka Bella
Introduction Of Infinite Series In High School Level Calculus, Ericka Bella
Masters Essays
No abstract provided.
Algebraic Topics In The Classroom – Gauss And Beyond, Lisa Krance
Algebraic Topics In The Classroom – Gauss And Beyond, Lisa Krance
Masters Essays
No abstract provided.
The Current State Of High School Female And Minority Self-Efficacy And Interest In Stem In Chatham County, Georgia, Sara Gremillion, Sarah Zingales, William Baird, Nia Hunter, Amy Durden, Sabrina Hessinger
The Current State Of High School Female And Minority Self-Efficacy And Interest In Stem In Chatham County, Georgia, Sara Gremillion, Sarah Zingales, William Baird, Nia Hunter, Amy Durden, Sabrina Hessinger
Georgia Educational Researcher
With the growing demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the U.S., the attainment of college degrees in these areas is of paramount importance. Both federal and state governments have established initiatives to grow the number of STEM degrees earned by women and racial minorities, as these groups graduate in STEM disciplines and work in STEM fields at a lower rate than that of their majority counterparts. The factors that can deter women and underrepresented minorities from pursuing STEM careers have been identified with one of the most prominent being low self-efficacy, or a reduced belief in …
Properties Of Functionally Alexandroff Topologies And Their Lattice, Jacob Scott Menix
Properties Of Functionally Alexandroff Topologies And Their Lattice, Jacob Scott Menix
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis explores functionally Alexandroff topologies and the order theory asso- ciated when considering the collection of such topologies on some set X. We present several theorems about the properties of these topologies as well as their partially ordered set.
The first chapter introduces functionally Alexandroff topologies and motivates why this work is of interest to topologists. This chapter explains the historical context of this relatively new type of topology and how this work relates to previous work in topology. Chapter 2 presents several theorems describing properties of functionally Alexandroff topologies ad presents a characterization for the functionally Alexandroff topologies …
Data Mining And Machine Learning To Improve Northern Florida’S Foster Care System, Daniel Oldham, Nathan Foster, Mihhail Berezovski
Data Mining And Machine Learning To Improve Northern Florida’S Foster Care System, Daniel Oldham, Nathan Foster, Mihhail Berezovski
Beyond: Undergraduate Research Journal
The purpose of this research project is to use statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning techniques to determine identifiable factors in child welfare service records that could lead to a child entering the foster care system multiple times. This would allow us the capability of accurately predicting a case’s outcome based on these factors. We were provided with eight years of data in the form of multiple spreadsheets from Partnership for Strong Families (PSF), a child welfare services organization based in Gainesville, Florida, who is contracted by the Florida Department for Children and Families (DCF). This data contained a …
Calculus Remediation As An Indicator For Success On The Calculus Ap Exam, Ty Stockham
Calculus Remediation As An Indicator For Success On The Calculus Ap Exam, Ty Stockham
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
This study investigates the effects of implementing a remediation program in a high school Advanced Placement Calculus AB course on student class grades and success in passing the AP Calculus AB exam.
A voluntary remediation program was designed to help students understand the key concepts and big ideas in beginning Calculus. Over a period of eight years the program was put into practice and data on student participation and achievement was collected. Students who participated in this program were given individualized recitation activities targeting their specific misunderstandings, and then given an opportunity to retest on chapter exams that they had …
Finite Field Dynamics: Exploring Isomorphic Graphs And Cycles Of Length P, Catlain Mccarthy
Finite Field Dynamics: Exploring Isomorphic Graphs And Cycles Of Length P, Catlain Mccarthy
Honors Program Theses and Projects
For this project, we explore nite eld dynamics and the various patterns of cycles of elements that emerge from the manipulation of a function and eld. Given a function f : Fp ! Fp, we can create a directed graph with an edge from c to f(c) for all c 2 Fp. We especially consider polynomials of the form f(x) = xd + c and investigate how varying the values of d and c affect the cycles in a given nite eld, Fp. We analyze data to look for graphs that result in cycles of length p. We also identify …
Theory Of Linear Models For Estimating Regression Parameters With Applications To Two-Factor Studies With Unequal Sample Sizes, Zenan Sun
Honors Program Theses and Projects
In this thesis we explored some topics in regression analysis. In particular, we studied what linear regression is from a matrix theory perspective, and applied analysis of variance in a setting with two factors and unbalanced sample sizes. In addition, we applied Box-Cox variable transformation as a solution when the regression model violated the normality and equal variance (also called homoscedasticity) assumption. Our main goal is to use these theories to construct models and investigate questions related to lifetime earnings of people living in America by using real data. In doing so, we used the statistical software R to perform …
Bounding The Rates Of Convergence Towards The Extreme Value Distributions, James Palmer
Bounding The Rates Of Convergence Towards The Extreme Value Distributions, James Palmer
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Extreme value theory is a branch of probability which examines the extreme outliers of probability distributions. Three extreme value distributions arise as the limits of the maxima of sequences of random variables with certain properties. In this paper, we will first give information about these three distributions and prove that they are the only limit distributions of maxima. After that, we switch to a discussion about Stein's method. Stein's method is commonly used to prove central limit theorems. Stein's method also develops bounds on the distance between probability distributions with regards to a probability metric. There are three essential steps …
Modified Ramsey Numbers, Meaghan Mahoney
Modified Ramsey Numbers, Meaghan Mahoney
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Ramsey theory is a eld of study named after the mathematician Frank P. Ramsey. In general, problems in Ramsey theory look for structure amid a collection of unstructured objects and are often solved using techniques of Graph Theory. For a typical question in Ramsey theory, we use two colors, say red and blue, to color the edges of a complete graph, and then look for either a complete subgraph of order n whose edges are all red or a complete subgraph of order m whose edges are all blue. The minimum number of vertices needed to guarantee one of these …
Firefighter Problem Played On Infinite Graphs, Sarah Days-Merrill
Firefighter Problem Played On Infinite Graphs, Sarah Days-Merrill
Honors Program Theses and Projects
The Firefighter Problem was introduced over 30 years ago and continues to be studied by researchers today. The problem consists of a graph of interest where a fire breaks out at time t = 0 on any given vertex of thegraph G. The player, then, gets to place a firefighter to “protect” a vertex from the fire. Each consecutive turn,the fire spreads to adjacent vertices. These vertices are then referred to as “burned”. The firefighter also gets tomove to protect an additional, unburned vertex, completing the first round. Each vertex that the firefighter “defends” stays protected for the remainder …
Understanding The Impact Of Peer-Led Workshops On Student Learning, Afolabi Ibitoye, Nadia Kennedy, Armando Cosme
Understanding The Impact Of Peer-Led Workshops On Student Learning, Afolabi Ibitoye, Nadia Kennedy, Armando Cosme
Publications and Research
As students we often wonder why some subjects are easy to understand and requires not much effort in terms of re-reading the material, for us to grasp what it entails. One subject seems to remain elusive and uneasy for a vast majority of learners at all levels of education; that subject is Mathematics, it is one subject that most learners finds difficult even after doubling the amount of time spent on studying the material. My intention is to explore ways to make Mathematics easier for other students using feedback from students enrolled in NSF mathematics peer leading workshops, and use …
Orbit Spaces Of Unimodular Rows Over Smooth Real Affine Algebras., Soumi Tikader Dr.
Orbit Spaces Of Unimodular Rows Over Smooth Real Affine Algebras., Soumi Tikader Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Let R be a commutative, Noetherian ring of (Krull) dimension d. It is well known that the set of isomorphism classes of (oriented, if d is even) stably free R-modules of rank d carries the structure of an abelian group. This group can be identified with the orbit space of unimodular rows namely, Umd+1(R)/SLd+1(R). The prime objective of this thesis is to provide the complete computation of this group, when X = Spec(R) be a smooth real affine variety of dimension d ≥ 2 (with the assumption that the set of real points of X is non-empty and orientable). In …
Integrating Mathematics And Educational Robotics: Simple Motion Planning, Ronald I. Greenberg, George K. Thiruvathukal, Sara T. Greenberg
Integrating Mathematics And Educational Robotics: Simple Motion Planning, Ronald I. Greenberg, George K. Thiruvathukal, Sara T. Greenberg
George K. Thiruvathukal
This paper shows how students can be guided to integrate elementary mathematical analyses with motion planning for typical educational robots. Rather than using calculus as in comprehensive works on motion planning, we show students can achieve interesting results using just simple linear regression tools and trigonometric analyses. Experiments with one robotics platform show that use of these tools can lead to passable navigation through dead reckoning even if students have limited experience with use of sensors, programming, and mathematics.
Using Neural Networks To Classify Pdes, Julia Balukonis, Sabrina Fuller, Haley Rosso
Using Neural Networks To Classify Pdes, Julia Balukonis, Sabrina Fuller, Haley Rosso
Mathematics & Computer Science Student Scholarship
Major: Mathematics
Minor: Computer Science and Film
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lynette Boos, Mathematics and Computer Science
We designed two neural networks that can learn how to classify three different types of partial differential equations (PDEs). Our data consists of numerical solutions to three categories of PDEs: Burger’s, Diffusion, and Transport equations. Using TensorFlow and the Keras library, we performed two tasks – the first a binary classification of Burger’s and Diffusion equation data, and the second a multi-label classification incorporating the Transport Equations as well. Our binary classification network requires vector labels to perform efficiently. Furthermore, our tertiary classification network …
A Self-Contained Course In The Mathematical Theory Of Statistics For Scientists & Engineers With An Emphasis On Predictive Regression Modeling & Financial Applications., Tim Smith
Timothy Smith
Preface & Acknowledgments
This textbook is designed for a higher level undergraduate, perhaps even first year graduate, course for engineering or science students who are interested to gain knowledge of using data analysis to make predictive models. While there is no statistical perquisite knowledge required to read this book, due to the fact that the study is designed for the reader to truly understand the underlying theory rather than just learn how to read computer output, it would be best read with some familiarity of elementary statistics. The book is self-contained and the only true perquisite knowledge is a solid …
Mathematical Analysis Of The Duck Migration To Louisiana, Brandon Garcia
Mathematical Analysis Of The Duck Migration To Louisiana, Brandon Garcia
Mathematics Senior Capstone Papers
The purpose of this project is to research the relationship between duck migration and weather patterns, more specifically trying to determine if the rainfall and temperature in a given year affects the migration patterns of ducks. Duck hunters and conservation- ists alike have observed an overall decrease in the duck population in Louisiana over the past 70 years. Though some years have seen an increase, the population has not recovered to the level from the 1950s. These observations have led to many questions about what have happened to the ducks or where have the ducks gone. Using differ- ent forms …
Interview Of Stephen Andrilli, Ph.D., Stephen Francis Andrilli Ph.D., Jane Highley
Interview Of Stephen Andrilli, Ph.D., Stephen Francis Andrilli Ph.D., Jane Highley
All Oral Histories
Stephen Francis Andrilli was born in August 1952 in Bryn Mawr, PA. He was born to Francis and Leatrice Andrilli. Dr. Andrilli is the oldest of four children; his three sisters are Carol (now Carol Strosser), Patricia (now Patricia Kempczynski), and Barbara (now Barbara Parkes). Aside from a few years of living in Gettysburg, Dr. Andrilli has lived in the Philadelphia area for most of his life. He attended St. Jerome School, where he finished 8th grade. He then attended LaSalle College High School, where he graduated in 1969 at age 16. He entered La Salle University (formerly La Salle …
Do Men Matter? In Statistics, Probably, Michael Kelly
Do Men Matter? In Statistics, Probably, Michael Kelly
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In statistical genetics, there are several parameters of a dataset which a researcher might, but which are difficult to estimate in practice. In this paper, we will be focusing on allele frequencies, null alleles, inbreeding coefficients and, to a certain extent, beta values. A common technique for obtaining these values, developed by Amy Anderson and her co-workers, is to jointly estimate all of them using an EM-algorithm and the method of maximum likelihood. Despite this technique being effective in general, it is currently unable to deal with males at X-linked markers. The purpose of this project is to modify the …
Integrating Mathematics And Educational Robotics: Simple Motion Planning, Ronald I. Greenberg, George K. Thiruvathukal, Sara T. Greenberg
Integrating Mathematics And Educational Robotics: Simple Motion Planning, Ronald I. Greenberg, George K. Thiruvathukal, Sara T. Greenberg
Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This paper shows how students can be guided to integrate elementary mathematical analyses with motion planning for typical educational robots. Rather than using calculus as in comprehensive works on motion planning, we show students can achieve interesting results using just simple linear regression tools and trigonometric analyses. Experiments with one robotics platform show that use of these tools can lead to passable navigation through dead reckoning even if students have limited experience with use of sensors, programming, and mathematics.
From Big Science To “Deep Science”, Florentin Smarandache, Victor Christianto
From Big Science To “Deep Science”, Florentin Smarandache, Victor Christianto
Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications
The Standard Model of particle physics has accomplished a great deal including the discovery of Higgs boson in 2012. However, since the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model has not been successful so far, some physicists are asking what alternative deeper theory could be beyond the Standard Model? This article discusses the relationship between mathematics and physical reality and explores the ways to go from Big Science to “Deep Science”.
Infinite Mode Quantum Gaussian States., Tiju Cherian John Dr.
Infinite Mode Quantum Gaussian States., Tiju Cherian John Dr.
Doctoral Theses
No abstract provided.
Estimating The Density Of The Abundant Numbers, Dominic Klyve, Melissa Pidde, Kathryn E. Temple
Estimating The Density Of The Abundant Numbers, Dominic Klyve, Melissa Pidde, Kathryn E. Temple
Mathematics Faculty Scholarship
Mathematicians have been interested in properties of abundant numbers – those which are smaller than the sum of their proper factors – for over 2,000 years. During the last century, one line of research has focused in particular on determining the density of abundant numbers in the integers. Current estimates have brought the upper and lower bounds on this density to within about 10−4, with a value of K ≈ 0.2476, but more precise values seem difficult to obtain. In this paper, we employ computational data and tools from inferential statistics to get more insight into this value. We also …