GN: Excursions in Mathematics

Catalog description

Contemporary mathematical topics selected by the instructor, such as voting and weighted systems, fair division, apportionment, game theory, Euler circuits, the Traveling Salesman Problem, minimum networks, scheduling, linear programming, types of growth, measurement, symmetry and patterns, collecting and describing data, elementary probability, inference and financial mathematics, will be applied to the social and natural sciences. Course may not be used for credit toward a Mathematics major.