Independent Study

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In the senior year, each student engages in independent research into an aspect of mathematics that he or she finds particularly intriguing.With the guidance of a faculty member, each student completes an Independent Study thesis. Examples of recent projects include:

• Essentials of Differential Geometry
• Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem and the Mind
• Chaos on S 2: The Newtonian Two-Body Problem on the 2-Sphere
• “Knot” Your Typical Topology Project
• Benford’s Law and the Detection of Accounting Fraud
• Queueing Theory: Mathematical Models for Waiting Lines
• Trying to Pull Oneself Up by Bootstraps: A Statistical Challenge