Math 492 - Junior-Senior Honors Seminar
Description
Math 492 is a seminar that counts towards the Honors Track’s seminar requirement. The topics, and prerequisites, vary from semester to semester. Typically, the topic is chosen to be a subject area that is outside of the usual undergraduate curriculum. Every week, the seminar meets once to look at a presentation. Participants take turns lecturing. Student presentations, including questions at the end, typically last for close to the full duration of the 80 minute period.
Topics covered
There is no standard list of topics covered in this course, owing to its student-driven seminar structure. There may be some theme the professor running the course may want students to abide by in their presentations.
Comments on prerequisites
Unofficial/suggested additional prerequisites: Junior/Senior status. Applications from exceptionally qualified freshmen and sophomores are considered.
Usually, students in this seminar course have already finished 300 and have already begun one or more of the 400-level honors sequences in mathematics.
Resources
Textbook
There is no common textbook for this course. Some instructors may recommend certain texts as a source for presentation material, but this heavily depends on the iteration of the course.
Additional materials
A previous course page from when the seminar was run by Alex Kontorovich in Spring 2017 may be found online at https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~alexk/2017S492/index.html.