Over Spring break, many of you will, like me, find yourself at loose ends. You`ve read the text book, and done all the interesting problems, but what to do now? Here are some possibilities:
- Puzzles
- Books to read (none about algebra!)
- Prisoner`s Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb
by William Poundstone
- A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by John Allen Paulos
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy
from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
- The Lady or the Tiger and Other Logical Puzzles
by Raymond Smullyan
- Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
- Movies to see
- A Beautiful Mind
- Good Will Hunting
- Pi
- Fantasia
- Places to go