Notes and Thesis

I began typing up my notes in LaTeX during the last couple of semesters in my undergrad at SFSU. Thus, I have maintained a collection of condensed notes from those times.

These notes are specifically the theorems, remarks and corollaries used in proofs within the homework, and are written without justification.

I’ve organized my notes from these classes into four major topics:

Then you’ll see links to my Masters Thesis.

Please contact me if you find any mistakes in the notes!

Algebra

ClassProfessorSyllabus/Topics Covered
Number TheoryDr. Matthias BeckDivisibility
Primes
Congruences
Arithmetic functions
Primitive roots
Quadratic reciprocity
Continued fractions
Modern Algebra IDr. Matthias BeckIntegers & the Euclidean algorithm
Complex numbers, roots of unity & Cardano’s formula
Modular arithmetic & commutative rings
Polynomials, power series & integral domains
Permutations & groups
Modern Algebra IIDr. Matthias BeckReview of basic properties of groups and rings and their quotient structures and homomorphisms, group actions, Sylow’s theorems, principal ideal domains, unique factorization, Euclidean domains, polynomial rings, modules, tensor products, field extensions, primitive roots, finite fields.
Graduate AlgebraDr. Matthias BeckRings and modules; further material is selected from such topics as Wedderburn theory, Noetherian ring theory, field theory, and general algebraic systems.

Analysis

ClassProfessorSyllabus/Topics Covered
Real Analysis IDr. Alex SchusterIn this course we will prove many of the results from
Calculus. We will examine in detail the concepts of limits, continuity, differentiation and
integration.
Real Analysis IIDr. Alex SchusterSequences and series of functions, uniform convergence, real-analytic functions, metric spaces, open and closed sets, compact and connected sets, and continuous functions.
Graduate AnalysisDr. Sheldon Axler

Geometry

ClassProfessorSyllabus/Topics Covered
GeometryDr. Joseph Gubeladze
  • Prove theorems in incidence geometry;Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Euclid’s Elements as an axiomatic system;
  • Compare various approaches to Euclidean geometry;
  • Prove theorems in Euclidean and projective geometries;
  • Classify Euclidean motions and apply transformational methods to prove theorems and analyze symmetry patterns in the plane;
  • Discuss the significance of Euclid’s fifth postulate in the development of nonEuclidean geometry;
  • Define axiomatic system and discuss the importance of models for an axiomatic system.

Applied Mathematics

ClassProfessorSyllabus/Topics Covered
Mathematics of OptimizationDr, Serkan Hosten
  1. Optimization Models: modeling optimization problems as linear, quadratic, and semidenite programs
  2. Symmetric Matrices: using spectral decomposition of symmetric matrices for positive denite matrices and their role in optimization
  3. Singular Value Decomposition: computing SVDs in the context of linear equations and optimization
  4. Least Squares: solving systems of linear equations and least squares problems
  5. Convexity: identifying key properties of convex sets and convex functions for optimization
  6. Optimality Conditions and Duality: developing criteria to identify optimal solutions and using dual problem, in particular, in the context of linear models, Linear and Quadratic Models: employing the geometry of linear and quadratic models for solution algorithms,
  7. Semidenite programs: modeling certain convex optimization problems as semidenite programs
Probability and Statistics with ComputingDr. Mohammad Kafai
  • Discrete Distributions
    • Bernoulli
    • Binomial
    • Geometric
    • Negative Binomial
    • Hypergeometric
    • Multinomial
    • Poisson
  • Continuous Distributions
    • Uniform
    • Normal
    • Gamma
    • Exponential

Master’s Thesis

My Master’s Thesis, “Computerational Verification of the Cone Conjecture” is hosted in a few ways: