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John F. Putz, Ph.D.

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Selected Articles

  • John F. Putz (with Tim Sipka).  "On Generalizing the Pythagorean Theorem."  College Mathematics Journal.  2003. Vol. 34. No. 4. 291-295.  September 2003.
  • John F. Putz.  "Going Out On a Limb: A Reading and Writing Course about the Fourth Dimension."  PRIMUS.  2001. Vol. 11. No. 1. 1-15.  March 2001.
  • John F. Putz (with Carrie Morjan).  "Preference for the Golden Rectangle: A Student/Faculty Research Project."  PRIMUS.  2001. Vol. 11. No. 4. 370-383.  December 2001.
  • John F. Putz.  "Animated Demonstrations for Multivariable Calculus."  Electronic Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.  http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/EP-10.html.  February 1998.
  • John F. Putz.  "The CAS in Multivariable Calculus."  Electronic Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.  http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/EP-8.html.  February 1996.
  • John F. Putz.  "The Golden Section and the Piano Sonatas of Mozart."  Mathematics Magazine.  1995. Vol. 68. No. 4. 275-282.  October 1995.
  • John F. Putz, Ph.D..  "Using Maple V in Calculus: Getting Started at a Liberal Arts College."  Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.  1994. 803-811
  • John F. Putz, Ph.D..  "Pascal Polytopes: An Extension to N Dimensions of Pascal’s Triangle."  College Mathematics Journal.  1986. Vol. 17. No. 2. 144-155.
  • John F. Putz, Ph.D..  "When Line Symmetry Implies Point Symmetry."  Mathematical Gazette.  1986. Vol. 70. No. 452. 129-130.

 

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Alex Hegedus

Alex Hegedus
Graduation: 2014
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics

Want to be a world traveler? A mathematic researcher? An Ultimate Frisbee player? A fraternity brother? At Alma College, Jackson junior Alex Hegedus doesn’t have to choose among his interests.

“You are able to do so many different things at Alma,” he says. “Friends at bigger universities say they have to pick one extracurricular and stick to that, so if I wanted to play Frisbee, I could only play Frisbee. But here it’s possible to make friends in so many different areas and be involved in so much.”

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