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(UNDER REVIEW) 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

SHMR 109 - Gaming the System: Alternatives in Mathematics and Logic

4.00 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 101/102 and 103. Students who successfully completed either of these cannot take SHMR 109 or they will lose credit.

Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Quantitative Analysis.
iCon(s): Innovating the World.


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