Instructor: Lubos Thoma
Office: Tyler Hall 214
Tel: 874.4451
Email: thoma at math.uri.edu

Class Schedule: TuTh 2.00pm--3.15pm,

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                If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via my email above.

Description:  
This is a mathematics seminar with an eye on the Putnam competition. We will focus on problem-based learning.

The main goals of the seminar are

to revisit some of the important concepts encountered in your undergraduate curriculum; thus, showing connections and providing synthesis of mathematical tools across disciplines and providing a deeper insight into them,

to help you master these concepts and ideas through problem-based learning,

to nurture a friendly research atmosphere among the students.

Particular topics will be choosen in accord with the interest of the audience. Here are several topics covered in the Putnam seminar in the past: recurrence relations, ramsey theory, number theory and diophantine approximations, inequalities, real functions, polynomials and their roots, euclidean geometry.

Last but not least, the seminar will help the interested students to prepare for the nationwide William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition. You can find more info at http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnamindex.shtml and bring some fame to URI by competing.

Prerequisite:   MTH 215 and MTH 243, or equivalent.