Course Materials -- Contemporary Mathematics (Math 203)
Math 203 at UNL is based on the book "For All Practical Purposes", the
fourth edition, by COMAP (The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications).
The course requires very little prerequisite knowledge, yet explores a variety
of "real-life" mathematical topics.
This web page is (at present) intended only as a resource for instructors of
the course. As we teach it, there are three natural segments:
management science, which is really about
interesting applications of combinatorics,
statistics, and
the rest. At each of these three sites you
can find some materials. There are also some materials to
begin the course.
The remainder of this page contains some general remarks about
these materials.
The materials labelled `copy me' are to be duplicated and distributed to each
instructor in advance of the week when they are needed. The number of copies
needed by the instructors may be found here.
If you create any new materials, send them to the course convenor for
posting to these pages.
Under ``formats'', the first choice is what you want to get a printed
version of the documents. For more information on the formats and how
to read them, click here.
The other choices are to get the source.
The author(s) of documents are listed only in cases where it could be
unambiguously determined, and where it will be helpful to you in choosing
what you want to look at! Many of the materials here were originally
written by Mel Thornton. An author's name is placed in parentheses if the
document was in good part copied from someone else's document.
These web pages were originally written by David Jaffe (Fall 1997),
and (will be) subsequently revised by Judy Walker (Spring 1998).