The Paper

A required part of Math 6490 is a project on the topics of this course, with a written report of about 10 pages, depending on the appendices, and giving a brief oral presentation on this report at the end of term. The project can be anything on the subjects of this term including roughly: rigid motions and similarities, tilings and patterns, Möbius transformations and complex geometry, the topology of surfaces, the enumeration of groups, and lots more. The project could be historical, mathematical or a programming project.

Here are some guidelines.

• The finished report should be neatly presented, with your written expositions typed where possible. Take care of niceties such as sectioning, page numbers, references and citations, charts or diagrams, etc. I will shortly pass out a checklist on formatting issues to consider.
• I will allow you to work in pairs, if you and a classmate wish to work together on a project.
• The total workload over the course of the term should be something around 25 hours, assuming you are efficient about those hours. If you're working in a pair, the workload should be something more than that,probably 15 or 20 hours per person.
• By March 11, I will ask for a brief paragraph stating your plan for your work.