Wooster Mathematics Senior Theses
2008
- David Adams
Using Math to Play Like a Champion; How Game Thoery can be used to Predict Behavior in International Relations, Biology, Politics and Economics
- Melissa Bay
Are Smartboards a Smart Decision? The Residual Effects of Interactive Whiteboards in Early Childhood Mathematics
- Jocelyn Barker
Predicting Gene Copy Number Using Genomic Sequence Data (Math and BMB)
- John Gamble
Foundations of Quantum Decoherence (Math and Physics)
- Denise Koessler
Elliptic Curve Cryptography: Making the Simple Complex
- Mike Marshall
A Look at Fantasy Football From a Mathematical Point of View
- Darcy Poland
Mathematical Experiences of Students from the Ohio Appalachian Valley
- Bethany Smith-Polderman
The 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 Reasons why Sudoku is a Puzzle worth Solving
- Benjamin Strecker
Making Monads: Binding to a Specific Type of Computation with a Return to Familiar Themes (Math and Computer Science)
- Elizabeth Stroud
An Exploration of Curves
2007
- Bianca Clivio
Out of the Darkness and Into the Light: Using Mathematics on the Road to Economic Development
- Rick Drushal
What Did One Node Say to the Other? A Study of Inference in Bayesian Networks (Math and Computer Science)
- Steve Elmore
Non-Euclidean Geometry
- Dapeng Hu
Show Me the Money: A Study of Two-Person Games
- Nate Johns
Grand Slam! Finding Optimal Batting Orders Using Markov Chains
- Julie Meredith
Life's a Game, Play It! A Study on Game Theoretic Modeling
- Andy Mizak
A Mathematical Guide to Casino Gaming
- Will Morrison
An Investigation of Six Sigma: The Fact, Fad, and Fiction of Corporate America's Favorite Tool
- Steve Motil
TGYARCOPHRYP MRFO TENCANI OT DONMRE SITEM: The Cryptographic Advancements in the Security of Messages From Ancient to Modern Times From a Mathematical Perspective
- Andy Nicol
Investigating the AKS Algorithm
- Stephen Poprocki
Bayesian Source Direction Determination for Gravitational-Wave Bursts (Math and Physics)
- Tim Presto
Levy Processes with Particular Interest in the Poisson Process and its Application in Queuing Theory
- James Rohal
The SIAM 100.0000000-Digit Challenge: A Study in High Accuracy Numerical Computing Using Interval Analysis and Mathematica
- Andrew Sage
What are the Chances? A Study of Probability Functions and Their Theory
- Sarah Suddendorf
Good to the Last Drop: Percolation through Hypercubic and Random Lattices for Integer, Fractional, and Fractal Dimensions (Math and Physics)
- Phil Vitalbo
Fourier Analysis
- Dan Weaver
Topics in Computational Geometry: Steiner's Problem and the Voronoi Diagram
2006
- Kenda Albertson
Graph Zeta Functions
- Anshuman Bagaria
The Capacity of a Graph and the Theorems of Shannon, Rosenfeld, Hales and Lovasz
- Jonathan Baker
Elliptic Cuves and Their Applications in Number Theoretic Ciphers
- Tyler Bosch
Theory of Groups of Symmetries and Permutations
- Bridgette Briggs
Markov Chains
- Scott Britton
Introduction to Measure
- Adam Hanley
It's My Right to Choose! The Origins, Equivalents, and Philosophy of The Axiom of Choice
- Genevieve Luken
Scheduling is (NP) Hard
- Kathleen McCreary
Characterization of BEEM Performance (Math and Physics)
- Shannon McIntyre
Tensors and Adjoints and Circs, Oh My! A Study of Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra
- Manoj Pageni
Lambda Calculus and Functional Programming (Math and CS)
2005
- Antoney Calistes
Essentials of Differential Geometry: By the Undergraduate, For the Undergraduate
- Zachary Carter
The Scandal of Geometry
- Clarkson Dzapasi
PHI
- Jacob Frank
One Dimensional Chaotic Dynamical Systems
- Brian Goche
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- Lauren Gruenebaum
Obeying the Law: An Exploration of Benford's Law and Its Application to the Detection of Accounting Fraud
- Katherine Henley
Making Life Simpler: An Investigation of Some Isoperimetric Problems
- Stephen Kufuor
Queueing Theory: Mathematical Models for Waiting in Lines
- Erin McGinnis
Moving Through the World One State at a Time: An Investigation of Markov Chains
- Allison Nau
The Strength of a State: Modeling Hard and Soft Power (Math and Int'l Relations)
- Clinton Nicely
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Mathematical Models of Vehical Traction and Stability
- Karen Pearson
Dynamic Programming, or, How To Choose Your Own Adventure
- Cassie Ritzmann
Mathematics Anxiety: The Links Between the Education System and Students' Attitudes About Mathematics
- Matthew Schlingman
The Queen of Mathematics
- Christopher Sirois
Steiner Trees
- Rebecca Young
Trying to Pull Oneself Up By Bootstraps: A Statistical Challenge
2004
- David Bordeaux
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and the Mind (Math and Philosophy)
- Mrinal Gurbaxani
Nonlinear Pricing: Optimization in the Supplier-Buyer Relationship (Math and Economics)
- Nicholas Harmon
Chaos on S2: The Newtonian Two-Body Problem on the 2-Sphere (Math and Physics)
- Kayla Heising
"Knot" Your Typical Topology Project: A Comprehensive Study of Know Thoery, Its Most Prevalent Properties, and Applications to DNA Research
- Kyle Kindbom
The Rubik's Cube: 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 Reasons Why It's Good To Know Group Theory
- Stephanie Profio
Students, Welcome to the Rest of the World: Using Ethnomathematics as a Multicultural Technique in the American Mathematics Classroom