MA 27900: Modern Mathematics In Science And Society

3 Credits

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Brooke Max
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The course covers topics in combinatorics and probability applied to real life situations such as the paradoxa of democracy, weighted voting, fair division, apportionment, traveling salesmen, the mathematics of networks, Fibonacci numbers, golden ratio, growth patterns in nature, mathematics of money, symmetry, fractals, censuses and surveys, random sampling, sample spaces, permutations and uniform probability spaces.

Course MA 279 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.

Prerequisites:
MA 15800 or MA 16100 or MA 16500 or MA 23100 or MA 16010
Brooke Max

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