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Solutions you hand in for homework assignments must be your own work. Although you may discuss the general approach to solving a problem with other people, you should never discuss the solution in detail. You must not take any written notes away from such a discussion, and you should wait at least one hour after the discussion to write down anything about the homework questions. Also, you must list on the cover page of your solutions any people with whom you have discussed the problems. The solutions you hand in should be your own work. While writing them, you may look at the course textbook and your own lecture notes but no other outside sources.
Homework assignments | 15% |
3 tests (during class, weighted equally) | 45% |
Final exam | 40% |
First class | September 5 |
Rosh Hashanah (no class) | September 14 |
Test 1 | October 3 |
Thanksgiving (no class) | October 8 |
Test 2 | October 31 |
Drop deadline | November 9 |
Test 3 | November 26 |
Last class | December 3 |
When a section is assigned as reading, you should do a significant number of the associated exercises as practice. The ones recommended below should be considered a starting point, but you should do more. (And if you have trouble with one particular exercise, do more similar ones.)
The back of the text contains answers for odd-numbered exercises. (In some cases the answers are very brief to save space; you would be expected to show more work.)
Approximate Date | Section | Recommended Exercises |
Sep 5 | 1.1 | 5,9,19,23,27,44,49,55-59 |
Sep 7 | skim 1.2 | 1,3,4,5,7 |
Sep 10 | 1.3 | 13,21,23,25,33,39 |
Sep 10 | 1.4 | 1,3,9,12,21,25,27,39 |
Sep 12 | skim 1.5 | |
Sep 12 | 1.6 | 1,3,7,9,10,11,15,17,25,27,33,35,39 |
Sep 17 | 1.7 | 3,5,7,14,15,19,21,22,23,25,30,32 |
Sep 19 | 2.1 | 1-5,7,9,12-15,17,19,23,27,29,33 |
Sep 21 | 2.2 | 3,5,7,9,13,17a,19,27,45,49 |
Sep 24 | 2.3 | 1,7,9,15,17,19,21,27,29,61,63,69 |
Sep 28 | 2.4 (first half) | 3,5,13,15,17,19,20,27 |
Oct 1 | 2.4 (second half) | 31,33,35,37,40 |
Oct 12 | 3.2 | 1,4,5,7,9,11,14,15,18,19,21,22,24,32,35,39,41,43,61,63 |
Oct 17 | 4.1 | 3,6,7,10,13,19,21,27,29,33,35,39,41,43,45,47,48,49,51,59,61,65,66,70 |
Oct 24 | 4.2 (skip pages 288-291) | 3,7,11,13,14,15,26,29,30,31,32,35,38 |
Oct 26 | 4.3 up to page 299 | 1,3,5,7,8,9,13,15,20,21,51,57,59,61,62 |
Oct 29 | 4.3 pages 299-308 | 23,25,27,29,33,35,39,44 |
Nov 2 | 5.1 | 3,7,11,13,15,21,31,38,39,59 |
Nov 5 | 5.2 | 3,5,9,11,13,21,25,31,39 |
Nov 9 | 5.3 | 3,5,7,9,13,15,17,19,21,23,28,33,43 |
Nov 12 | 5.4 | 3,5,7,9,12,14,17,21,29,33 |
Nov 14 | 5.5 | 7,9,11,13,15,18,19,23,25,31,35,43,51,55 |
Nov 16 | 7.1 | 1,11,13,15,17,19,27,29,35 |
Nov 19 | Notes (to end of Sec 3.2.3) | Guess solutions to some of the recurrences in the exercises of textbook section 7.1 and prove your guesses are correct. |
Nov 21 | Notes (Sec 3.2.4 to beginning of 4.1.1) | From textbook Section 7.1: 8,9 and from Section 7.2: 1,3,5,7,11,17. |
Nov 23 | Notes (Sec 4.1.1 to 4.2) | From textbook Section 7.2: 19,21, 23, 25, 29, 31 |
Nov 28 | Notes (Sec 5 and 6) | From textbook Section 7.3: 10, 11, 21 and these problems |
Nov 30 | 8.1 | TBA |
Dec 3 | 8.5 | TBA |
Preview of what is to come: We will be covering parts of Chapters 1-5, 7, 8 and maybe 9.
Updated January 3, 2008