GORDON COLLEGE (1999)
INTRODUCTION
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
ABSTRACTS OF INVITED PAPERS
- "Euler's Sums and Euler's Crumbs"
William Dunham, Muhlenberg College, page 1
- "The Calvin Center Writing Project", page 3
PAPERS WITH A PHILOSOPHICAL EMPHASIS
- "The Deconstruction of Mathematics"
David Stucki, Otterbein College, page 7
- "Determinism, Chaos, and the Meaning of Randomness, or Quantum
Theory and the Sovereignty of God"
John Wicks, North Park University, page 22
PAPERS WITH A CHRISTIAN EMPHASIS
- "Willing the Will of God"
Harold Heie, Center for Christian Studies, page 42
- "Can Mathematics Be Taught in a Christian Way?"
Johan H. de Klerk, Potchefstroom University, page 59
- "Lewis Carroll: Author, Mathematician, and Christian"
David L. Neuhouser, Taylor University, page 64
PAPERS ON MATHEMATICAL TOPICS
- "Hyperbolic Geometry and Poincare's Half-Plane Model"
Robert Frank, Seton Hill College, page 81
- "Using Mathematica to Explore Abstract Algebra"
Al Hibbard, Central College, page 96
- "Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry"
Dennis Keller, University of Michigan, page 111
- "Tracking the Trochoid on Safari"
Andrew Simoson, King College, page 115
- "On the Solutions of a Family of Sextic Thue Equations"
Alain Togbe, Greenville College, page 129
REPORTS ON SOME EXPERIENCES
- "A Mathematician at the Science and Theology Book Club"
Greg Crow, Point Loma Nazarene University, page 138
- "Doubt and Certainty-A Book and Idea Review"
Richard Laatsch, Miami University (Ohio), page 141
- "Teaching Linear Algebra and Abstract Algebra With Two Way Video and
Audio"
Edward Reinke, Concordia University (Nebraska), page 146
BOOK REVIEWS
- "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science"
Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
reviewed by David J. Stucki, Otterbein College, page 148
- "An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1"
Paul J. Nahin
reviewed by Michael O'Leary, Concordia University (Illinois), page 149
- "Revolutions in Mathematics"
edited by Donald Gillies
reviewed by Kevin Vander Meulen, Redeemer College, page 150
- "The Man Who Loves Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Ernos and the Search
for Mathematical Truth"
Paul Hoffman
reviewed by Maria Zack, Point Loma Nazarene University, page 151
- "The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible"
Keith Devlin
reviewed by Charles Hampton, The College of Wooster, page 153
- "Virtual Gods: The Seduction of Power and Pleasure in Cyberspace"
edited by Tal Brooke
reviewed by Jonathan R. Senning, Gordon College, page 155
- "The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics"
Stanislas DeHaene
reviewed by Mary Vanderschoot, Concordia College (Minnesota), page 157
- "Math: Facing an American Phobia"
Marilyn Burns
reviewed by Stephen L. Brown, Olivet Nazarene University, page 159
- "The Philosophy of Mathematics"
W.S. Anglin
reviewed by Richard D. Rockwell, Pacific Union College, page 166
LIST OF CONFERENCE DELEGATES, page 167
CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH, page 171