For this year’s Math Intermediate course at Leiden University College The Hague, I helped develop some of the materials.
Lecturer: Owen Biesel
Email: bieselod@math.leidenuniv.nl (no longer valid; use the Contact form)
Course documents
- Syllabus
- Course Reader
- Explorations Handouts that I wrote.
Course links and videos
- Plus Magazine: The philosophy of applied mathematics
- Plus Magazine: 101 uses of a quadratic equation: Part II
- Plus Magazine: Maths goes to the movies
- Plus Magazine: The origins of proof
- Plus Magazine: The origins of proof II : Kepler’s proofs
- Plus Magazine: Picking holes in mathematics
- Plus Magazine: The life and numbers of Fibonacci
- Vi Hart: Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant
- Plus Magazine: From dust to us
- Plus Magazine: The magical mathematics of music
- Rational Numbers Animation I made. (no longer accessible)
- Vi Hart: What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch)
- 60-Second Adventures in Thought: Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel
- Plus Magazine: A glimpse of Cantor’s paradise
- Vi Hart: How many kinds of infinity are there?
- Vi Hart: Proof some infinities are bigger than other infinities
- Desmos Graphing Calculator with presets.
- Plus Magazine: Radioactive decay and exponential laws
Owen Biesel 