Vince Costanzo's Projects Page

Welcome.  Two projects that were performed by Vince Costanzo are available here.  

Vibrating String Research Project

• This project was performed at the Center for Nonlinear Analysis 2000 Summer Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.  It was revised and presented for departmental honors in mathematics at the Villanova Mathematics Colloquium.  It examines the behavior of a vibrating string with a point mass located at its midpoint and uniform density elsewhere.
    
• Click here to view the Vibrating String project page.
  
  
• Related Links:
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • CMU Math Department
  • CMU's Center for Nonlinear Analysis
  • CNA Summer Institute 2000

Maple Maptools package

• The second project is the Maple maptools package created at Villanova during the spring of 2001 in MAT5900: Seminar in Cartographiometry.  It is a set of Maple functions that aid the (mathematical) cartographer by making the map generation process easier.  The user provides maptools with a function that describes a projection and maptools creates a plot of the projection, showing the coastlines and the graticule.
  
  
• Click here to view the Maple Maptools page.
  
  
• Related Links:
  • Cartographiometry Homepage (course homepage)
  • Hans Havlicek's Collection of Map Projections (at the Technical University in Vienna)
  • Similar packages at MapleApps.com