Mathematics

Senior Seminar Projects

2017

• Lydia Black - "Using History of Mathematics in the Classroom"
• Chandler Clark - "Game-Based Learning in Mathematics Education"
• Andrew Edmiston - "The Algorithm Heard Around the World: Google and the Wonder of PageRank"
• Graham Gardner - "Using KL Divergence to Create an R-Squared Measure of Goodness of Fit for the Exponential Family of Regression Models"
• Michayla Kramer - "Congressional Apportionment, LaGrange's Identity, and the 2016 Election"
• Amy Murdaugh - "Determining Unique Local Minima in Complex Systems"
• Matthew Owen - "Geometry of nonlinear least squares with applications to sloppy models and optimization"
• Renee Seavey - "Using Maximum Likelihood Estimators in the Analysis of Censored and Truncated Data Sets"

2016

• Caleb Dahl - "Fermat's Last Theorem: n=3 Case"
• John Gollihugh - "Developing Algebraic Reasoning through Problem Solving"
• Najla Qaadan - "Nice Matrices"
• Joshua Stucky - "Approximation of Irrational Numbers by Rationals"
• Jessica Vinyard - "Students' Difficulties with Proof"

Off-campus Presentations

• Amy Murdaugh won first place for her presentation at MAA Southeastern Section Meeting at Clemson University, 2018
• Joshua Stucky won first place for his presentation at the Kappa Mu Epsilon regional convention in Nebraska, 2016

Publications

• Joshua Stucky, "Concerning the Growth of Minecraft Animal Populations" The Pentagon, Spring 2017
• Joshua Stucky, "Several Theorems Concerning the Irrationality of Certain Infinite Series Involving Tetrations" The Pentagon, Spring 2016
• Kimberly Lukens, "Oddities in CxC" The Pentagon, Fall 2012
• Emilie Huffman, "On the Theory of Numbers: A Paper by Evariste Galois" The Pentagon, Fall 2012
• David Clark, et. al., "Discrete Calculus on a Scaled Number Line," PanAmerican Mathematical Journal, 2016