Instructional Laboratory for Teaching Experimental Mathematics

该项目将支持购买计算设备，用于加强一门强调数学实验软件的应用数学课程。它是由仪器和实验室改进(ILI)计划资助的，该计划的目标是通过支持开发新的或改进的基于仪器的本科实验室和/或科学、数学或工程领域的现场课程来提高本科课程的质量。特别是这门课程的目的是(1)鼓励学生对数学的实验态度，通过使用计算机作为加强直觉洞察、提出猜想和阐明理论的实验室，(2)通过激发学生通过实验所学的东西来加深对理论概念和方法的理解，以及(3)使学生认识到数学分析与当前计算机技术进步所带来的算法/计算活动之间的关系。

This project will support the purchase of computing equipment which will be used to enhance a course in applied mathematics which emphasizes software for mathematical experiments. It is being funded under the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Program, which has the goal of improving the quality of the undergraduate curriculum by supporting projects to develop new or improved instrument-based undergraduate laboratory and/or field courses in science, mathematics, or engineering. In particular, the purposes of the course which will be supported are (1) to encourage an experimental attitude towards mathematics in the students, by using the computer as a laboratory for strengthening intuitive insight, suggesting conjectures, and illuminating theory, (2) to deepen the understanding of theoretical concepts and methods by motivating students by what they learn experimentally, and (3) to make students appreciate the relation between mathematical analysis and the algorithmic/computational activities made possible by current advances in computer technology.