Assignments for Math 347 (D1H) -- Fall, 2008
Prof. C. Ward Henson
Assignments are listed in reverse time order.
Final exam: 8-11am Thurs.
12/18 in 141 Altgeld.
Problem session for the final exam: 5:00 Wed. 12/17 in 141 Altgeld.
Special office hours before the final exam: Tues. 12/16 at 4:30; Wed.
12/17 at 11:30.
Problems for Chapter 15: # 8, 10, 13, 20, 21, 24, 28.
Classes
42 and 43 (M 12/8 and W 12/10): cover the indicated parts of
Chapter 15.
Read next, in Chapter 15: pages 294-298 plus Theorems 15.19 and
15.26. Most of this will be discussed in class; however, you
should read and check the following results on your own: 15.9, 15.12,
15.13, 15.16.
In class Wednesday 12/10: hand in solutions to 14.10b, 14.33, and 14.50.
Even more problems for Chapter 14 (on infinite series): # 10b, 33, 44,
50, 51, 52.
More problems for Chapter 14 (on the Cauchy criterion, etc): # 13, 28a,
29; also 30 and 31.
Classes
39, 40, and 41 (M 12/1, W 12/3, and F 11/5): cover the rest of
Chapter 14.
In class Wednesday 12/3 (after Thanksgiving vacation): hand in
solutions to 14.9, 14.13, and 14.21.
Class
38 (F 11/21): went over solutions to problems on Exam #4.
cover pages 276-279 in Chapter 14.
Class
37 (W 11/19): 100 point exam on Chapters 6, 7, 13 and the
start of 14. (The specific pages are: all of 6, 139-149 in 7,
256-263 in 13, and 272-275 in 14.)
Problem session Tuesday 11/18 at 5:00 in room 145 Altgeld.
Class
36 (M 11/17): practice problems for Exam #4.
Problems for Chapter 14: # 9, 10a, 17, 21; also try 19.
Class
35 (F 11/14): cover pages 272-275, Chapter 14.
Start reading Chapter 14 next.
Classes
32, 33, and 34 (F 11/7, M 11/10, and W 11/12): cover pages
256-263, Chapter 13.
In class Wednesday 11/12: hand in solutions to 13.23, 13.26, and 13.32.
Problems for Chapter 13: # 19&21, 23, 25&26&27, 30, 32.
Read pages 256-263 in Chapter 13 next (for F 11/5 and beyond).
In class Wednesday 11/5: hand in solutions to 6.61, 7.12, and
7.17. (For 6.61, consider the ideal of all polynomials over R in
variables x,y whose constant term is 0.)
Problems for Chapter 7: # 11, 12, 13, 14; 6, 8, 17, 32; 16, 21, 45.
Classes
30 and 31 (M 11/3 and W 11/5): cover Chapter 7.
In class Wednesday 10/29: hand in solutions to 6.56b, 6.63, and 6.64.
Polynomial problems for Chapter 6: # 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65.
Classes
26, 27, 28, and 29 (F 10/24, M 10/27, W 10/29, and F 10/31):
cover pages
131-134.
Read pages 55, 59, and 131-134 (on polynomials), to be covered F 10/24,
M 10/27, and W 10/29.
Class
25 (W 10/22): 50-point Exam on Chapters 4, 5, and the first half
of 6.
Problem session Tuesday 10/21 at 5:00 in room 145 Altgeld Hall.
More problems for Chapter 6: # 24, 29, 37, 47.
Class
24 (M 10/20): practice problems for Exam #3.
Problems for Chapter 6: # 4, 17, 18, 22, 28, 30, 46, 50a.
Classes
21, 22, and 23 (M 10/13, W 10/15, and F 10/17): cover pages
124-131 in Chapter 6; we will cover the rest of Chapter 6 after Exam #3.
In class Wednesday 10/15: hand in solutions to 5.33, 5.36, and 5.38.
Read pages 124-131 in Chapter 6.
Problems for Chapter 5: # 15, 16, 27, 30, 33, 36, 37, 38, 46.
Classes
19 and 20 (W 10/8 and F 10/10): cover most of Chapter 5.
Read Chapter 5.
In class Wednesday 10/8: hand in solutions to 4.20ab, 4.45, and 4.51.
More problems for Chapter 4: # 20, 30, 48, 49, 50, 51.
Read the handout giving more details of the proof
of Schroeder-Bernstein than are explicitly given in the text.
Classes
17 and 18 (F 10/3 and M 10/6):
finish Chapter 4 -- bijections between infinite sets and the
Schroeder-Bernstein Theorem.
Class 16 (W 10/1): 100-point
Exam on
Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Problem session Tuesday 9/30 at 5:00 in room 145 Altgeld.
Class
15 (M 9/29): practice problems
for
Exam #2.
Problems for Chapter 4: (for classes 12 and 13) # 22, 25abc, 27, 34,
35, 36, 37; (for classes 13 and 14) # 21, 45, 46.
In class Wednesday, 9/24: hand in solutions to 3.11, 3.33, and 3.57.
Classes
12, 13, 14 (M 9/22, W 9/24, and
F 9/26): begin covering Chapter 4 (plus two classes after Exam #2).
Read Chapter 4 next; pages 80-87 will be discussed in the next three
classes, and pages 88-89 will be covered after Exam #2.
Additional problems for Chapter 3: # 55, 56, 57.
Class
11 (F 9/19): finish Chapter 3.
Class
10 (W 9/17): 50-point Exam on
Chapters 1, 2, and 3.
Problem session Tuesday 9/16 at 5:00 in room 143 Altgeld.
Class
9 (M 9/15): practice problems for
Exam #1.
Problems for Chapter 3: # 4, 6, 11, 17, 18, 22, 33, 41, 47, 49ac, and 3
exercises on the handout (items 8, 9, and 13).
Classes
7 and 8 (Wed 9/10 and Fri
9/12): Chapter 3; see also the
handout
on properties of N.
In class Wednesday, 9/10: hand in solutions to 2.4abcd, 2.28ab.
Problems for Chapter 2: # 3, 4abcd, 10, 28, 29, 38.
In Chapter 2, we emphasize the material concerning quantifiers and
connectives, how to negate mathematical statements, and how to organize
proofs of implications and equivalences.
Classes
5 and 6 (Fri 9/5 and M 9/8):
Chapter 2.
In class Wednesday, 9/3: hand in solutions to problems # 1.46a and # 4,
6 on the handout.
Problems for Chapter 1: # 27, 28, 29, 39, 46ab, and the handout on
elementary inequalities.
Read Chapter 1, especially pages 1-5 and
15-18 (basic algebraic and order properties of the real number
system).
Classes
1 through 4 (M 8/25 through W
9/3): Chapter 1.