A Primer for Undergraduate Research From Groups and Tiles to Frames and Vaccines /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wootton, Aaron (Editor), Peterson, Valerie (Editor), Lee, Christopher (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2017.
• Series: Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Group theory.; Matrix theory.; Algebra.; Convex geometry.; Discrete geometry.; Number theory.; Discrete mathematics.; Biomathematics.; Discrete Mathematics.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; Number Theory.; Convex and Discrete Geometry.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.; Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Matrix Theory.

This highly readable book aims to ease the many challenges of starting undergraduate research. It accomplishes this by presenting a diverse series of self-contained, accessible articles which include specific open problems and prepare the reader to tackle them with ample background material and refe...

Table of Contents:

• Coxeter Groups and the Davis Complex (T.A. Schroeder)
• A Tale of Two Symmetries: Embeddable and Non-Embeddable Group Actions on Surfaces (V. Peterson, A. Wootton)
• Tile Invariants for Tackling Tiling Questions (M.P. Hitchman)
• Forbidden Minors: Finding the Finite Few (T.W. Mattman)
• Introduction to competitive graph coloring (C. Dunn, V. Larsen, J.F. Nordstrom)
• Matrioids (E. McNicholas, N.A. Neudauer, C. Starr)
• Finite Frame Theory (S. Datta, J. Oldroyd)
• Mathematical decision-making with linear and convex programming (J. Kotas)
• Computing weight multiplicities (P. E. Harris)
• Vaccination strategies for small worlds. (W. Just, H. C. Highlander)
• Steady and Stable: Numerical Investigations of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (R. C. Harwood).