What does SUMaC cost?
Tuition for SUMaC 2010 is $5250. This includes campus housing and dining, all course materials, expenses for organized activities, plus transportation to and from the San Francisco airport, if required. Financial aid is available. What topics does SUMaC cover? SUMaC uses topics that are central to the field of mathematics through their historical significance and their relevance to current lines of mathematical research. The SUMaC courses focus on pure mathematics – that is, mathematics that is motivated independently of ties to other sciences – nonetheless, important applications are introduced and pursued. SUMaC is divided into two programs: • Program I topics are introduced through five motivating problems: non-constructibility in geometry, classification of patterns in two dimensions, error-correcting codes, cryptography, and the analysis of the Rubik’s cube. The mathematics that is central to solving these problems comes from the areas of abstract algebra and number theory. Abstra
