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NOTE: This is for now the official page of the Florida Zeta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon. Maybe some day this page will receive some cosmetic improvements, but for now it will have to do. I hope, however, that it will be useful to focus the Pi Mu Epsilon activities at FAU. It also provides links to posted problems and other events. In fact, for the time being, it almost only has links.
MEMBERSHIP: To become a member you need to be approved by the chapter advisor and pay a one time fee of $20. Membership is for life. Membership includes a one year subscription (2 issues) of the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. To be approved for membership at FAU you must satisfy one of the following:
- Be an undergraduate student with a GPA of at least 3.00 in mathematics courses; these courses must include at least one mathematics course past Calculus (such as Modern Analysis or Modern Algebra) with a grade of B or better.
- Or, be an undergraduate student who submits nice solutions to some of the posted problems.
- Or, be a graduate student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
- Or, be a faculty member in the Department
LINKS
- The National Pi Mu Epsilon Page Check out this page to find out more about the national honorary math society, and also about activities at other chapters. Each chapter can have its page linked to the national page, maybe one day our chapter will be sufficiently active so that we consider being linked.
- Pi Mu Epsilon Day, January 27, 2006. Some images from the visit by Professor Joan Weiss, at the time the president of the national Pi Mu Epsilon Society.
- PME Sponsored Event, October 14, 2008. Links to the talk delivered that day by the Pi Mu Epsilon faculty advisor, the suggested problems (one of them with hints), and a slightly modernized version of the method used by Euler to accelerate the convergence of the series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty 1/n^2$.
- Euler, Riemann and the million dollar question.
- Translated excerpt from Euler_DeSummatione_1738.
- Problems of October 14, 2008 If you have a solution, please submit it to Professor T. Schonbek in one of the following forms:
- Electronically, either as a latex, dvi, pdf or word file, to schonbek@fau.edu.
- By regular mail, written nicely and clearly on paper. You can either send it to Professor T. Schonbek, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, or give it to the departmental secretary for delivery.
The best answers will be revealed at the next PME event. Prizes may be awarded.
- Problems from the American Mathematical Monthly
WARNING: These are usually quite hard problems. Do not get discouraged if you look at them and feel that there is no way you can do them. First of all, some of them may require more advanced knowledge, though that is rare. Second, and more common, that feeling is what one has when seeing a problem for the first time. Third, as mentioned, they can be hard problems and you may find that some of them even stump a lot of our faculty members. We will try to solve some of these problems and submit our solutions to the Monthly. The policy I follow is: The solution of any problem discussed in a session for which there was no solution at the beginning of the discussion, gets submitted as being solved by the FAU Problem Solving Group. However, any student solving a problem on his or her own should get full credit for the solution and submit it under his or her name. He or she may want to present the solution at one of the sessions; moreover, I would be happy to act as an editor and help get the problem written up nicely.
- Problems from the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal
- Problems from Mathematics Magazine
- Local Solutions to Problems 2008-2009