Bryan Smith
Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Puget Sound

Table of Contents

1. Contact Me
2. Office Hours
3. Final Exam Schedule:
4. Check your grades To use this option you must submit, by hand, a signed, dated sheet of paper designating your access code.
5. Spring 2002 Courses:

   	Honors 213 (Math. Reasoning)	Course Information Sheet:	(HTML)	(PDF)
   	Math 300 (Geometry)	Course Information Sheet:	(HTML)	(PDF)
   	Math 434 (Abstract Algebra)	Course Information Sheet:	(HTML)	(PDF)

6. Topics for Majors
   1. The Contract Major in Mathematics or Computer Science
      1. Descriptions Contracts should be submitted by the beginning of the Junior year and no later than spring of the Junior year.
      2. Contract forms for mathematics.
      3. Contract forms for computer science.
      4. Sample contracts
   2. Study mathematics abroad? The Budapest Semester in Mathematics.
   3. How to obtain a letter of recommendation.
7. Interesting Mathematical Links
8. Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics at Puget Sound
9. University Calendars

Final Exams

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 2001-2002

Events Calendar 2001-2002

Thompson Hall Science-Math Seminars (2001-2002)

Contact Information

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

Office: Thompson 321-E
Voice: (253) 879-3562
E-Mail: bryans@ups.edu