Synopsis We present and assess a project and its rubric developed and assigned in Mathematics for Liberal Arts, a general education course for non-science and non-business majors, to incorporate different skills including aesthetic design, written and oral communication, and mathematical analysis to tackle a common optimization problem with an aesthetic slant: construct a beverage can (i.e., right circular cylinder) of a given volume while taking into account the cost of materials (i.e., surface area) and aesthetic qualities (e.g., the golden ratio).

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文科数学中的美学项目

内容提要我们介绍和评估一个项目，以及在非人文科学和非商业专业的通识教育课程中为人文科学数学开发和分配的项目，以整合不同的技能，包括美学设计，书面和口头交流以及数学分析。解决带有美学倾向的常见优化问题：构造一个给定体积的饮料罐（即直圆柱），同时考虑到材料成本（即表面积）和美学品质（例如黄金比例）。