Spring 2005
| Syllabus |
| Lecture Videos |
| Assignments |
| Examinations |
| Office Hours |
| Sections |
| Announcement from FAS Computer Services: The canonical version of your course Web site is now available on the Courses tab of the new my.Harvard portal |
The Magic of Numbers
Barry Mazur
| Location: Science Center D |
| Meeting time: M., W., F., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged. |
| Exam group: 3 |
| Catalog number: 4764 |
|
| This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, .... We will discuss various special classes of numbers, like Fibonacci numbers, factorials, and binomial coefficients, and the many ways they arise in mathematics. We'll also investigate the distribution of prime numbers and discuss coding systems based on modular arithmetic. |
URL: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~qr28/
Last modified: 09/21/2002 Instructor's Toolkit
Copyright ©The President and Fellows of Harvard College