Girls Math Night

What is it?

Why be a mentor?

When? Where?

Meetings can be in-person or virtual, depending on the needs of the mentor and students.

In-person or hybrid presentations are held at the end of each semester.

Graduate Organizers: Bella Finkel

Faculty Organizers: Tullia Dymarz

Topics and Resources

Topics

Cardinality of Sets

Bijections, injections, and surjections

Quaternions

Definitions and Properites of the Trace

Non-Euclidean Geometries

Parking Functions

Honk! Honk!: An Introduction to Parking Functions, Part 1

Honk!: An Introduction to Parking Functions, Part 2

Sunzi's Theorem (The Chinese Remainder Theorem)

Written Resources

Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos

Mathematics and its History by John Stillwell (This is a versatile book. Some chapters are appropriate for students at all levels, most are suitable for students who have taken calculus, and a few at the end are ideal for students who have seen some group theory.)

Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler (Most suitable for students who have taken linear algebra)

Most suitable for students with prior exposure to proof-based mathematics:

Primes of the Form x^2+ny^2 : Fermat, Class Field Theory, and Complex Multiplication by David A. Cox

Matrix Groups for Undergraduates by Kristopher Tapp (Suitable for students who have taken linear algebra and a proof-based mathematics course)

Administrative Resources and Contacts

Erin Bailey, Associate Director of Community Engaged Research in the College of Letters and Science

Dr. Gloria Marí-Beffa, Associate Dean for Research