MAA Short Course on Experimental Mathematics
A short course on experimental mathematics was held 10-11 January 2006 in conjunction
with the annual AMS-MAA meeting in San Antonio. Here are links to several websites
with additional information:
- MAA website describing the course:
MAA course description
- Course synopsis
(PDF)
- Course schedule:
PDF
- Lecture material for the course (as it becomes available):
Lecture 1: Jonathan M. Borwein, "Experimental Mathematics: A Philosophical Introduction"
PDF (8 Mbyte)
Cinderella zip file
Lecture 2: Victor Moll, "Some Questions in the Evaluation of Definite Integrals"
PDF
Mathematica worksheet #1
Mathematica worksheet #2
Lecture 3: David H. Bailey, "Algorithms for Experimental Mathematics I"
PDF (1 Mbyte)
Lecture 4: Neil Calkin, "Analyzing the Quadratic Sieve"
PDF (1 Mbyte)
Lecture 5: Russell Luke, "Exploration and Discovery in Inverse Scattering"
PDF (1 Mbyte)
Lecture 6: Roland Girgensohn, "Analysis and Probability on the Computer"
PDF
Maple worksheet
Lecture 7: David H. Bailey, "Algorithms for Experimental Mathematics II"
PDF (2 Mbyte)
Lecture 8: Jonathan M. Borwein, "Experimental Mathematics: A Computational Conclusion"
PDF (6 Mbyte)
- Some related lecture material:
Borwein's lecture "Philosophical Implications of Experimental Math"
PDF (5.4 Mbyte)
Jonathan M Borwein, "Clifford Lectures"
PDF (13 Mbyte)
David H Bailey, "Experimental Mathematics: Discovering New Formulas and Theorems"
PDF (1 Mbyte)
David H Bailey, "Experimental Mathematics and the Normality of Pi"
PDF (1 Mbyte)