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COURSE
INFO
SYLLABUS
READER’S
GUIDE
HOMEWORK
HANDOUTS & MISC.
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ASSIGNMENTS:
(updated 12/1, non-public links have been removed)
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DUE on:
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Homework
due:
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Reading
due:
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#1 Mon. 9/16
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#2 Wed. 9/18
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HW#1.
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“Math
Takes Center Stage.”
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1
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#2x Thu. 9/19
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Warm-up.
HW#2 (#1-3).
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#3 Fri. 9/20
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HW#2
(#4-7).
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#4 Mon. 9/23
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Fermat’s
Room
reflection.
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“Euclid’s
Poetics.”
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#5 Wed. 9/25
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Discussion
sign-up.
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“Death
and the Compass”, “The Garden of Forking Paths”, “The Simpson’s Secret
Formula.”
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2,3
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#5x Thu. 9/26
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“Death
and the Compass”, “The Garden of Forking Paths”, “The Library of Babel”, “The
Aleph,” Borges and Mathematics pp. 1-5, 13-14, 20-21.
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5,6,7
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#6 Fri. 9/27
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“from
Mist”, Borges and Mathematics pp. 38-55, and Oxford
Murders pp. 1-56.
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#7 Mon. 9/30
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Oxford
Murders
reflection.
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Oxford
Murders.
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#8 Wed. 10/2
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#8x Thu. 10/3
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#9 Fri. 10/4
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Logicomix reflection.
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Logicomix.
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#10 Mon. 10/7
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“The
Extraordinary Hotel”, from Mist.
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Tue. 10/8
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HW#3.
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from
Mist.
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#11 Wed. 10/9
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Stranger
than Fiction
reflection.
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#12 Fri. 10/11
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HW
#4: Solve “Adventure of Dancing Men”.
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“Adventure
of Dancing Men”, “The
Gold Bug”
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12,13
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#13 Mon. 10/14
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HW
#5.
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#14 Wed. 10/16
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#15 Fri. 10/18
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EXAM
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#16 Mon 10/21
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Arcadia scenes.
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Arcadia.
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#17 Wed 10/23
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HW#6.
(Optional, Arcadia reflection.)
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“Mathematical
Femmes Fatales”, “Smart Girls”, “Alice in Numb3rsland”.
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#18
Fri 10/25
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Proposal
for Final Paper.
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Watch:
Top Secret Rosies (on Blackboard).
Read:
“The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”, “Rise of Narrative Non-Fiction”, “Alan
Turing”, “Being Julia Robinson’s Sister”.
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#19 Mon 10/28
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Uncle
Petros
reflection. (Optional Top Secret Rosies reflection.)
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Uncle
Petros.
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14,15,16
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#20 Wed 10/30
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HW
#7.
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“Squaring
the Circle…”, “Counting with Sharks”, “Introduction” and “Conclusion” to Duel
at Dawn.
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17,18,19
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#21 Fri 11/1
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Pi
reflection.
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Watch:
Pi. Read:“Capturing the Unicorn”, “Center of the Universe”
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25
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#22 Mon 11/4
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Outline
for Final Paper.
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26,27
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Tues 11/5
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HW
#8.
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#23 Wed 11/6
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Flatland reflection.
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Flatland.
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#24 Fri 11/8
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HW
#9.
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“Parable
of the Cave”, “Flatland in Popular Culture”
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28,29
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#25 Mon 11/11
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HW
#10.
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“And
Be Built a Crooked House”
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30
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#26 Wed 11/13
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Pleasantville reflection.
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Watch:
Pleasantville.
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#26x Thu 11/14
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EXAM
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#27 Fri 11/15
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HW
#11.
(Optional:
draft of final paper.)
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“The
Disk”, “A Subway Named Moebius”, “A. Botts and the Moebius Strip”, “The No Sided
Professor”
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#28 Mon 11/18
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31,32,33, 34
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Nov 22.
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FINAL
PAPER due
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INSTRUCTOR:
Mark Kozek, Kemeny 311, email: mark.r.kozek {at}
dartmouth.edu.
Copyright
© 2013 by Mark Kozek.
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