Applied Math Literacy

Math 38500, Autumn quarter 2002.

• Time: 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Thursdays
• Place: The Barn
• Instructor: R. Scott
• Prerequisites: none, but Analysis I or equivalent would be useful
• Text: none

This ongoing course, analogous to Geometric Literacy, might be subtitled: ``some things every good applied mathematician should know.'' The topics will intersperse elementary background with topics in current research, and will be understandable by second year math grad students. The individual modules (hopefully 3 weeks long, but maybe 2-5 weeks each) will allow people to re-start if interest or focus diverges. Topics for fall 2002 will include:

• models for fluids from Newton to Rivlin and Eriksen (existence, uniqueness, computational algorithms);
• models for economic equilibrium based on Monge-Ampere type equations