This four-week adventure tour will visit some of the main attractions of Mathematics including numbers, the infinite, calculus, geometry, sequences, voting and music. We will also cross over borders into philosophy, politics, architecture, music, biology, art, theology, and cosmology. Professor?Pennings has three goals for this course:?1) to?acquaint the student with some of the life-changing discoveries and creations of mathematics 2) to help?students appreciate?the creativity and tenacity of great mathematicians 3)?to help students build relationships across disciplines as they discover?the utility and ubiquity of mathematics in our daily lives.?This course is designed for a curious audience with no math background beyond high school. This class is similar to a previous course for CALL but with new material. 

Tim Pennings has taught for 35 years as a Mathematics professor and/or chaired at Hope College, Kalamazoo College, Davenport University and Calvin University. He has directed the research of over sixty undergraduates, and does research in mathematical modeling,?the infinite, and chaos theory.?He is best known for his paper?“Do Dogs Know Calculus?”?coauthored with his Welsh corgi, Elvis. He currently?mentors a 2nd grader for Kid's?Hope, sings with the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys, mentors two prisoners with Prison Mathematics Project, and has a monthly?column in the Holland Sentinel.