© | Dror Bar-Natan: Classes: 2015-16:

Math 1750 - Shameless Mathematica

Toronto, Academic Year of 2015-2016

Agenda: Sophisticated mathematics with Mathematica!

Instructor: Dror Bar-Natan, drorbn@math.toronto.edu (for administrative matters only; math on email is slow and prone to misunderstandings, so I generally avoid it). Office: Bahen 6178, 416-946-5438.

Classes: Mondays 2:00-3:00 at Bahen 6183 and Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 at Bahen B026.

Office hours.


Course Calendar

# Week of ...  
1 January 11 Handout: About This Class.
Blackboards for Monday January 11.
Notebook for January 11: The Jones Polynomial.
Notebook for January 13: EIWL 1-4.
Notebook for January 13: Jones Poly.
Notebook for January 13: Jones Poly Experiments.
Notebook for January 13: Fibonacci.
Blackboards for Wednesday January 13.
2 January 18 MAT 475 Quiz 1.
Notebook for January 18: MAT 475 Quiz 1.
Notebook for January 18: Many Fibonacci Programs.
Blackboards for Monday January 18.
Notebook for January 20: Unprotect Experiments.
Notebook for January 20: In/Out Experiments.
Notebook for January 20: EIWL 5-8.
Notebook for January 20: The 1206 Riddle.
Blackboards for Wednesday January 20.
3 January 25 Class Photo.
Blackboards for Monday January 25.
Notebook for January 25: More Fibonacci Programs.
Notebook for January 27: EIWL 9-12 and a 48-xing knot.
Notebook for January 27: Collages.
Blackboards for Wednesday January 27.
Notebook for January 27: Drawing Tori.
4 February 1 Khovanov Homology in Hamburg, 2012.
Blackboards for Monday February 1.
Notebook for February 3: EIWL 13-18.
Student Project: Jesse Bettencourt on Dancing.
Student Project: Jonathan Love on the Reeb foliation.
Blackboards for Wednesday February 3.
Notebook for February 3: Sticky Tetris.
5 February 8 Notebook for February 8: A faster Jones program.
Blackboards for Monday February 8.
Khovanov handout, second pass.
Notebook for February 10: KH program, day 1.
Notebook for February 10: Random Play.
Blackboards for Wednesday February 10.
Video for Wednesday February 10 Hour 1.
Video for Wednesday February 10 Hour 2.
R February 15 UofT Reading Week.
Khovanov handout, third pass.
Blackboards for Wednesday February 17.
Notebook for February 17: KH program, day 2.
Video for Wednesday February 17 Hour 1.
Video for Wednesday February 17 Hour 2.
6 February 22 Blackboards for Monday February 22.
Notebook for February 22: KH program, day 3.
Blackboards for Wednesday February 24.
Notebook for February 24: KH program, day 4.
7 February 29 Blackboards for Monday February 29.
Notebook for February 29: KH program, day 5.
Blackboards for Wednesday March 2.
Notebook for March 2: Fusible Numbers.
Notebook for March 2: The Schwartz Lantern.
Notebook for March 2: KH program, day 6.
8 March 7 Notebook for March 7: KH program, day 7.
Notebook for March 7: Making Packages.
Non-Commutative Gaussian Elimination.
Notebook for March 9: NCGE Materials.
Notebook for March 9: NCGE Implementation.
Blackboards for Wednesday March 9.
9 March 14 Notebook for March 14: NCGE Day 2.
Notebook for March 14: NCGE Day 2 Execution Monitor.
Notebook for March 16: MandelTime, NCGE Day 3.
10 March 21 Notebook for March 21: Peano curves, NCGE Day 4.
Blackboards for Monday March 21.
Notebook for March 23: Some image transformations, NCGE Day 5.
Notebook for March 23: Re-implementing permutations.
Blackboards for Wednesday March 23.
Friday is "Good Friday".
11 March 28 Notebook for March 28: Re-implementing permutations, day 2.
Blackboards for Monday March 28.
Notebook for March 28: A draft permutations package.
Notebook for March 28: A failed permutations package.
Notebook for March 30: A Permutations Package.
Notebook for March 30: Testing the Permutations Package.
A Talk on Commutators.
Notebook for March 30: Talk Slides - Foreground.
Blackboards for Wednesday March 30.
Notebook for March 30: Talk Slides - Background.
Notebook for March 30: Talk Slides - Background Extracts.
12 April 4 Notebook for April 4: Phase Portraits.
Blackboards for Monday April 4.
Notebook for April 6: The Willerton Fish.
Blackboards for Wednesday April 6.
Friday is the last day of classes.

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