Proceedings of the

Louisiana-Mississippi Section

of the

Mathematical Association of America

Spring 2003

Research | Pedagogy | Student Papers | Special Presentations

Research

• Did Euclid Know that 5 is Prime by Roger Waggoner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• What is a vector in hyperbolic geometry? And what is a hyperbolic linear transformation?, Ken Li, Dennis Merino, and Edgar Reyes, Southeastern Louisiana University
• On the Fibonacci Sequence, Syrous Marivani, Louisiana State University - Alexandria
• On the Frobenius coin problem; collaborative undergraduate research, Daniel Acosta, Southeastern Louisiana University
• Paths for Bipeds by  Margaret W. Maxfield
  
  

Pedagogy

• The Closest Line to a Data Set in the Plane by David Gurney, Southeastern Louisiana University
• A Fishbowl Activity – Demonstrating Relative Risk by Conway Link
• Bezier Curves by Kent Neuerburg, Southeastern Louisiana University
  

Student Papers

• The Koch Snowflake by Michael Kraus and Hunter Poitevint, Southeastern Louisiana University.   Faculty advisor - Dennis Merino