Math 43900 Problem Solving (Fall 2023)
Problem solving
Instructor:
Andrei Jorza, Hurley 275, Office Hours TBA
The course meets on Tuesdays at 3:30pm in Riley Hall 200
| Date | Lecture | Topics | Handout | |||
| Aug. 22 | 1 | Overview | Exercises | Statistics | ||
| Aug. 29 | 2 | Induction | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 5 | 3 | Calculus | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 12 | 4 | Polynomials | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 19 | 5 | The pigeonhole principle | Exercises | |||
| Sep. 26 | 6 | Invariants | Exercises | |||
| Oct. 3 | 7 | Number Theory | Exercises | |||
| Oct. 10 | 8 | Sequences and series | Exercises | |||
| Oct. 24 | 9 | Combinatorics | Exercises | |||
| Oct. 31 | 10 | Matrices | Exercises | |||
| Nov. 7 | 11 | Inequalities | Exercises | |||
| Nov. 14 | 12 | Functional equations | Exercises | |||
| Nov. 21 | 13 | Brainstorming | Exercises | Tips | ||
| Nov. 28 | 14 | Which problems do I choose? | Exercises | |||
| Dec. 2 | William Lowell Putnam Math Competition | |||||
| Dec. 5 | 15 | What just happened? | ||||
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