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Homework Exercises from The Heart of Mathematics 2nd edition (not to turn in)

Web sites related to Chapter 1:

• A Tight Weave: Sierpinski biography
• Let's Make A Deal: The Monty Hall Problem
• Let's Make A Deal: Hofstra java applet: play the game
• Let's Make A Deal: UC San Diego java applet: play the game
• Let's Make A Deal: U South Carolina java applet: play the game

Web sites related to Section 2.1:

• Photographic Artist Chris Jordan
• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
• Earth's circumference
• Mean distance between the earth and the sun
• Population clocks
• National debt to the penny
• National debt by year
• Prefixes for units
• Nicomachus

Web sites related to Section 2.3:

• Sieve of Eratosthenes
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
• Fermat Numbers
• Factoring Fermat Numbers

Video related to 2.3: The Proof