Math 43900 Problem Solving (Fall 2018)
Problem solving
Instructor: Andrei Jorza, Hurley 275.
The course meets on Tuesdays at 3:30pm in Hayes-Healy 117.
| Date | Lecture | Topics | Handout | |||
| Aug. 21 | 1 | Overview | Exercises | Statistics | ||
| Aug. 28 | 2 | Induction | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 4 | 3 | Calculus | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 11 | 4 | Polynomials | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 18 | 5 | The pigeonhole principle | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 25 | 6 | Invariants | Exercises | |||
| Oct. 2 | 7 | Number Theory | Exercises | |||
| Oct. 9 | 8 | Sequences and series | Exercises | Hints | ||
| Oct. 23 | 9 | Combinatorics | Exercises | Hints | ||
| Oct. 27 | Virginial Tech Regional Math Competition | |||||
| Oct. 30 | 10 | Matrices | Exercises | Hints | ||
| November 6 | 11 | Inequalities | Exercises | Hints | ||
| November 13 | 12 | Functional equations | Exercises | Hints | ||
| November 20 | 13 | Brainstorming | Exercises | Tips | ||
| November 27 | 14 | Which problems do I choose? | ||||
| Dec. 1 | William Lowell Putnam Math Competition | |||||
| Dec. 5 | 15 | What just happened? | ||||
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