COURSE INFO
SCHEDULE
SYLLABUS
HOMEWORK
OFFICE HOURS
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Math 108, Fall 2007
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Schedule
Daily topics are subject to change.
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Tuesday, 8/28: |
Prolog: Mathematical Challenges
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Thursday, 8/30: |
Problem Solving: Looking for Clues
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Tuesday, 9/4: |
Problem Solving: Using Logic and Truth
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Thursday, 9/6: |
Counting and Scale
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Tuesday, 9/11: |
Fibonacci Numbers, Prime Numbers
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Thursday, 9/13: |
Modular Arithmetic and Its Applications
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Tuesday 9/18: |
Irrational and Real Numbers
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Thursday 9/20: |
Graph Theory and Networks
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Tuesday 9/25: |
Maps and the Four Colour Theorem
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Thursday 9/27: |
Eulerian and Hamiltonian Graphs
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Tuesday 10/2: |
To Infinity...And Beyond!
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Thursday 10/4: |
Bijections between Sets
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Tuesday, 10/9: |
No Class-Fall Break
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Thursday, 10/11: |
Different Sizes of Infinity
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Tuesday 10/16: |
Review for Midterm
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Thursday 10/18: |
Midterm Exam
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Tuesday, 10/23: |
Sets and Counting
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Thursday 10/25: |
Probability and Chance
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Tuesday, 10/30: |
More on Probability
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Thursday 11/1: |
Probability 'Paradoxes'
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Tuesday, 11/6: |
Using Probability in Decision Making
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Thursday 11/8: |
Mathematics and Social Sciences
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Tuesday, 11/13: |
More on Decisions: Strategies
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Thursday 11/15: |
The Mathematics of Voting
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Tuesday, 11/27: |
Geometry and the Shape of Space
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Thursday 11/29: |
Pythagoras, Euclid, and the history of Geometry
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Tuesday, 12/4: |
Strategy Games
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Thursday 12/6: |
Course Recap
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Final Exam: Friday, December 14, 9-11 AM |
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