Math 191H: Honors Seminar: Mathematics
Catalog Description
    191H. Honors Seminar: Mathematics. (Formerly Math 190). Math Seminar, three hours. Participating seminar on advanced topics in mathematics. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit by petition. P/NP or letter grading.
General Information
    Math 191H, the Honors Seminar: Mathematics, is offered once a year, quarter to be determined. The course is open to all Upper Division students who have done reasonably well in their other mathematics courses. Enrollment may be restricted by the instructor. Student participation is required, and the students are charged with presenting most of the material.

    The instructor and the topic vary from year to year. The instructor for Spring 2004 is M. Takesaki. Topics treated in years past, and the instructors, are:

    Spring 2005: The Banach-Tarski Paradox, G. Hjorth

    Spring 2004: Introduction to Harmonic Analysis, M. Takesaki

    Spring 2003: Introduction of Functional Analysis, M. Takesaki

    Spring 2002: Matrix Groups, G. Hjorth

    Spring 2001: Participating Seminar in Numerical Analysis, C. Anderson

    Spring 2000: Introduction to Coding Theory and Information Theory, D. Blasius

    Fall 1998: The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics, M. Takesaki

    Fall 1997: Basic Examples in Dynamical Systems, R. Perez-Marco

    Fall 1996: Knots and their Invariants, S. Popa

    Winter 1996: Control Theory: Pure and Applied, P. Petersen

    Spring 1995: Rational Points on Elliptic Curves, R. Elman

    Winter 1994: Fractal Geometry -- Mathematical Foundations and Applications, L. Young

    Winter 1993: Topics in Elementary Number Theory, M. Green

    Winter 1992: Complex Dynamical Systems, T. Gamelin

    Winter 1991: Continued Fractions, L. Carleson

    Spring 1990: Mathematical Principles of Scientific Computing, B. Engquist

    Winter 1990: An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, D. Babbitt
 

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