Math 581F - Autumn 2013 - Computational Number Theory

• MWF at 11:30 in Padelford C401
• William Stein
• Enrollment status page (requires login)

Course Goal

• Collaboratively write a book called "A Computational Tour of Number Theory"

Grading

• Your grade will be based on your contributions to the book.

• You will write and polish parts of the book based on lectures, independent reading, research, etc.

• Create a project on https://cloud.sagemath.com devoted to this class with your name and "581f" in its title, and add me "William A Stein" as a collaborator.

Schedule

• Each day we'll do quick status reports at the beginning of class to see what each person has contributed.

• Friday, Sept 27:
  • class groups, FLT, etc. (see how far we get)

• Monday, Sept 30: bring your laptop
  • first status reports:
    • what you did on book?
    • what relevant background for the course you've read?
  • tutorial about using https://cloud.sagemath.com to do latex and compute things
  • tutorial about using git to work on the book