The Stuyvesant High School Online Course Guide

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Excursions in Mathematics is a course that examines facinating topics from the world of mathematics. The curriculum includes mathematical topics from ancient to modern times including early astronomy, calendars of the ancient world, the infinitude of primes,the formulas of Heron and Brahmagupta, game theory, Islamic mathematics, The Fibonacci sequence,mathematics and music, the golden ratio, Euler and the number e, Galileo and experimentation, Pascal's triangle, the mystery of Fermat, perfect numbers, Galois, knot theory, Ramanajun's formulas, the mathematics of the honeybee, statistics and the electoral vote, chaos and fractals, and much more.