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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

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