Department of Mathematics
College of Arts & Sciences
University of Kentucky
     
  MA 341 – 001
Topics in Geometry
Fall 2010

 

Thought for the Day: If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens when you strap a piece of toast on the back of a cat?

General Class Information

Class Syllabus . Click here for a PDF version for printing.

List of topics to be covered each day.  Click here for a PDF version for printing.

Class notes and homework are available as PDF files.  You need to have a copy of Adobe Reader to open these. 

Class Worksheets and Lecture Notes

Day 1 The Origins and Weapons of Geometry
                     Read this short story about π

Most of the remaining class notes will be available on the class Blackboard page available here.

Assignments  and Solutions are placed on the Blackboard web page

Geometry Links of Interest

·       Here is a list of quotations about mathematics and mathematicians

·       A History of Geometry from David Joyce at Clark University

·       Hyperbolic Geometry using Cabri

·       Hyperbolic Geometry using CabriJava

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Last updated 09 Sep 2010 by

David Royster droyster@ms.uky.edu