Timeline for Topics for an Undergraduate Expository Paper in Number Theory
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| Dec 28, 2012 at 1:57 | answer | added | Ken W. Smith | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 11:08 | answer | added | Frank Thorne | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 0:37 | answer | added | none | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 22:32 | answer | added | Vesselin Dimitrov | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | Marty | Hopefully you'll get some more suggestions below. But I want to remark that giving a student a topic such as "elliptic curves" or "cryptography" is giving way too much breadth. It's up to you to help the student find a narrow enough topic to be manageable. Otherwise you'll get some awful vague pseudo-mathematical papers. E.g., within cryptography, you could have the student write about El Gamal and the discrete log problem. Or with elliptic curves, a student could write about the Hasse bound and state the Sato-Tate conjecture. | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 21:13 | answer | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 21:05 | answer | added | Tom Leinster | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 20:36 | answer | added | Bugs Bunny | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 20:27 | answer | added | Yuhao Huang | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 20:20 | answer | added | Olivier | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 20:20 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | It might help to know the topics you will cover in the course in time for students to do a related project. | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 20:01 | comment | added | Sylvain JULIEN | Perhaps Chebychev's estimates? See Olivier Bordellès' book untitled Arithmetic Tales, Springer, 2012. | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 19:46 | history | asked | Owen Sizemore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |