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Sep 07, 2024
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ARCHIVED 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SGBI 103 - Gaming the System: Alternatives in Mathematics and Logic4.00 credit hours We see into the philosophical foundations of math and logic by comparing both to games and puzzles, taking a playful approach to questions about how we acquire “exact” knowledge. We compare the historical development of math and logic between the Mediterranean world, India and China and see how classical Greek forms (Euclidean geometry and Aristotelian syllogisms) develop into modern alternatives (Cartesian and Imaginary Geometry and propositional logic) as innovative solutions to quandaries about the nature of reasoning. We learn the uses of mapping in representing quantities visually, and examine possibilities for and limits of applying math to the “real” world. This course is the same as SGBI 101 and 102. Students who successfully completed both of those cannot take SGBI 103 or they will lose credit.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Quantitative Analysis. iCon(s): Innovating the World.
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