Math 43900 Problem Solving (Fall 2016)

 

Instructor: Andrei Jorza, Hurley 275.

The course meets on Tuesdays at 3:30pm in Hayes-Healy 127. Office hours Tuesdays 2-3:30.

Date Lecture Topics Handout Exercises Due Solutions
August 23 1 Overview Exercises Questionnaire 8/30
August 30 2 Proof by contradiction and induction Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class. 9/6 Solutions
September 6 3 Induction and the pigeonhole principle Exercises Write out exercise 2 from the first induction section and a pigeonhole exercise that we didn't do in class. 9/13 Solutions
September 13 4 Polynomials Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class, one from each section. 9/20 Solutions
September 20 5 Invariants Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class, one from each section. 9/27
September 27 6 Number theory Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class, one from each section. 10/4
October 4 7 Combinatorics Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class, each from a different section. 10/11
October 11 8 Matrices Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class, each from a different section. 10/25
October 22 Virginial Tech Regional Math Competition (or at a later date if you're not around)
October 25 9 Sequences and series Exercises 11/1
November 1 10 Calculus Exercises Write out two problems from the handout that we didn't do in class, each from a different section. 11/8
November 8 11 Functional equations Exercises Write out two problems from the handout, at least ONE that we didn't do in class, each from a different section. 11/15
November 15 12 Inequalities Exercises Write out two problems from the handout, at least ONE that we didn't do in class, each from a different section. 11/29
November 22 13 Which problems do I choose? Exercises Write out two problems from the handout, at least ONE that we didn't do in class, each from a different section.
November 29 14 Brainstorming Exercises No homework
December 3 William Lowell Putnam Math Competition
December 6 15

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