Bryan Smith
Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Puget Sound

Table of Contents

1. Office Hours: Reading Period and Finals Week
2. Spring 2001 Courses:
   • HONORS 213A ------------------Course Information Sheet__As of 08/25/2000
   • MATH 221PH / PHYS 122MA -------- Course Information Sheet__As of 08/25/2000
   • MATH 434A------------------Course Information Sheet__As of 08/25/2000
3. Check your grades.
4. How to Contact Me
5. Do you want to study mathematics in Budapest?
6. Interesting Mathematical Links
7. Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics at Puget Sound
8. University Calendars
9. How to obtain a letter of recommendation.
10. The contract major in mathematics and/or computer science. Contracts should be submitted by the beginning of the Junior year and no later than spring of the Junior year.
    1. Description of the contract majors in mathematics and computer science.
    2. Forms for the contract major in mathematics.
    3. Forms for the contract major in computer science.
    4. Sample contracts for the mathematics and computer science majors

Reading Period and Finals Week

Office Hours

Interesting Links

• Torus and Klein bottle games. Courtesy of Jeff Weeks. Requires that JAVA be enabled on your browser.
• Nasa information about the first COBE (COsmic Background Explorer) mission.
• Scientific American article "Is Space Finite" explaining how COBE measurements might determine the topology of the universe. Click the link and then run a search on ``Conventional wisdom says the universe is infinite'' (without the quotes).
• Mathematical Musings Provided by St. Cloud State University and aimed at undergraduate math students who want to share ideas, propose problems, or have questions answered.
• Internet Detective: Using the Web to do research? Use this to evaluate the quality of your information
• Beezer's Links of special interest to UPS students in mathematics or computer science.
• The AMS-SIAM Mathematical Careers Bulletin Board
• PBS Mathline Career Connections 
• The UPS Math/CS Alumni Page
• From Flatland to Hypergraphics: Interacting with Higher Dimensions. Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University
• Images from the Galileo spacecraft (The Jupiter Fly-By).
• Daily astronomical photos at NASA's astropix page.
• Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium A lecture by Nanny Fröman at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on February 28, 1996
• A brief exposition on the Banach-Tarski Paradox.
• Bertrand Russell's ``A Liberal Decalogue'' from from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.

University Calendars

Academic Calendar 2000-2001

Events Calendar 2000-2001

Thompson Hall Science-Math Seminars (2000-2001)

Contact Information

Bryan Smith, bryans@ups.edu
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner
Tacoma, Washington 98416

Office: Thompson 321-E
Voice: (253) 879-3562