Bachelor of Science in

Mathematics

In this class, students will learn how to view and think about the world through the lens of mathematics. Students will form their own mathematical conjectures about games they play and determine how to test the correctness of their conjectures. The class mainly consists of collecting data while playing games during the day, and writing analytic papers about the day’s experience in the evening. In this way they will learn how to reason from data and make arguments based on data.

This course uses the axiomatic and functional lenses of mathematics to both analyze and create art and music. In particular, we use projective geometry to develop axioms for perspective art, and we explore how mathematicians and artists tend to apply and manipulate those axioms differently. We use modular arithmetic and function transformations as a basis for understanding musical chords and counterpoint and compare that with a more conventional music theory approach. We also view and interpret fractals as structural objects from mathematical, artistic, and musical perspectives.

In this course, students will learn how to understand and use various methods for modeling and understanding complex datasets. Students will learn various regression techniques and classification methods. The theoretical underpinning of these methods will be covered and students will do small projects to learn how to use the methods, culminating in a final project on a topic of the student’s interest.