Math 453 - Elementary Theory of Numbers - Section E13/E14

The tetrahedron and the square checkerboard are each made of 19,600 small spheres.
The only numbers that are both square and tetrahedral are 1, 4, and 19,600.

Announcements

Class on Friday will be devoted to questions from students. Bring your questions!

The second exam will be on Monday, November 17 in class. For information about what this exam will consist of, look here.

The preliminary project report is due on Friday, November 21. The cutoff for instructor assistance is now Wednesday, November 19 at 5 pm.

There is now a webpage devoted to the project here. It will contain any necessary materials.

A class diary is posted here. It briefly summarizes what happened in class.

Course Info

Instructor: Jeremy Rouse.
Instructor e-mail: jarouse at math dot uiuc dot edu.
Text: Elementary Number Theory, James K. Strayer, Waveland Press, ISBN: 1-57766-224-5.
Class Location: MWF 1:00-1:50, Altgeld Hall room 445.
Office hours: Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 pm, and Friday 11 am-12 pm, and by appointment.

Important Links

• Course syllabus.
• Homework page.
• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. This amazing tool tries to identify and provide information about sequences of integers.
• The Prime Pages. This collection of pages has lots of information about prime numberes, including history, theory, and a compilation of large primes.
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. This archive has an incredible compilation of biographies of famous mathematicians.

Getting Help

• Come to class.
• Read the book.
• Do the homework.
• E-mail Jeremy.
• Come to office hours.
• Get help from your classmates.
• For a list of other resources for getting help, look here.

Last Modified Friday, November 7, 2008.