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“Product Development: Model Rockets As Toys”, Kelly W. Remijan May 2020

“Product Development: Model Rockets As Toys”, Kelly W. Remijan

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"American Football: Field Goals And Quadratic Functions”, Kelly W. Remijan May 2020

"American Football: Field Goals And Quadratic Functions”, Kelly W. Remijan

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"Crash Reconstruction: Stopping Distance”, Kelly W. Remijan May 2020

"Crash Reconstruction: Stopping Distance”, Kelly W. Remijan

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An Analysis And Comparison Of Knot Polynomials, Hannah Steinhauer May 2020

An Analysis And Comparison Of Knot Polynomials, Hannah Steinhauer

Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current

Knot polynomials are polynomial equations that are assigned to knot projections based on the mathematical properties of the knots. They are also invariants, or properties of knots that do not change under ambient isotopy. In other words, given an invariant α for a knot K, α is the same for any projection of K. We will define these knot polynomials and explain the processes by which one finds them for a given knot projection. We will also compare the relative usefulness of these polynomials.


Curving Towards Bézout: An Examination Of Plane Curves And Their Intersection, Camron Alexander Robey Cohen Jan 2020

Curving Towards Bézout: An Examination Of Plane Curves And Their Intersection, Camron Alexander Robey Cohen

Honors Papers

One area of interest in studying plane curves is intersection. Namely, given two plane curves, we are interested in understanding how they intersect. In this paper, we will build the machinery necessary to describe this intersection. Our discussion will include developing algebraic tools, describing how two curves intersect at a given point, and accounting for points at infinity by way of projective space. With all these tools, we will prove Bézout’s theorem, a robust description of the intersection between two curves relating the degrees of the defining polynomials to the number of points in the intersection.


Gröbner Bases And Systems Of Polynomial Equations, Rachel Holmes Jan 2020

Gröbner Bases And Systems Of Polynomial Equations, Rachel Holmes

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This paper will explore the use and construction of Gröbner bases through Buchberger's algorithm. Specifically, applications of such bases for solving systems of polynomial equations will be discussed. Furthermore, we relate many concepts in commutative algebra to ideas in computational algebraic geometry.