AMTH 214
Engineering Statistics I
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Classes will be held on Fridays from 7 - 9 AM in EC105. Note 7AM starting time.
The course syllabus is available.
The Final Exam will be passed out on December 6th and will be due on December 13th.
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Did You Know??
Yasumasa Kanada, of the Computer Science division of the Information Technology Center, University of Tokyo, has announced that his team has succeeded in computing 206,158,430,000 decimal digits of pi. This is a new world record. The 200 billionth digit of pi turns out to be a 2. Click here for more details of the project.
Richard Crandall of the Center for Advanced computation at Reed College, together with Ernst Mayer, formerly of Case Western Reserve University and Jason Papadopoulos of the University of Maryland, have verified that the 24th Fermat number (2^2^24+1) is not a prime number. You will find more information here.
On January 27th of 1998, the largest prime was discovered by a 19 year old college student from California! The number contains 909,526 digits and is equal to (2^3021377) - 1 and hence, is also the largest Mersenne prime, the 37th so far discovered. For more information on this subject and also, how you can participate in the search for the next largest prime, click here.
The first occurrence of 0123456789 in pi begins at the 17,387,594,880th digit after the decimal point. This was discovered in July 1997 by Yasumasa Kanada and Daisuke Takahashi at the University of Tokyo on a massively parallel Hitachi machine with 2^10 processors. For more digital distributions, details on the algorithm, etc. click here.
Miscellaneous:
Is your birthday the same as a famous mathematican/scientist (or perhaps not-so famous)?
January February March April May June July August September October November December
More extensive lists can be found at History of Mathematics and at Birthday Calendar.
(The variation in birthdays among the various sites is due to the differences between the Julian and Gregorian calendars).
Math-Related Links:
SIAM - the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Association of Women in Mathematics - home page of the AWM.
Michael Trick's Home Page - contains a wealth of information concerning NLP & LP.
Mathematical Programming Page - maintained by Rice University.
Mike Todd's Home Page - more goodies related to NLP & LP.
Interior Point information is available at this site maintained by Argonne National Lab.
Bell Labs - reports available of all kinds including NLP.
INFORMS - the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Math Works - the home page of the makers of Matlab.
Wolfram Research - the home page of the makers of Mathematica.
Pete Stewart - has a lot of material on the Linear Algebra aspects of NLP.
Mathematical Association of America
American Statistical Association
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