COURSE INFO
SCHEDULE
SYLLABUS
HOMEWORK
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
OFFICE HOURS
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Math 260
Introduction to Higher Mathematics
Schedule
The following is a tentative (optimistic?) schedule of the daily topics we'll be covering in this course.
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Tuesday, 1/17: |
How Many Primes?
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Thursday, 1/19: |
What is a Proof
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Monday, 1/23: |
The Filling: Proofs in two directions
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Tuesday, 1/24: |
Many Many Definitions
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Thursday, 1/26: |
Quantifiers and Construction
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Monday 1/30: |
Quantifiers and Choice
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Tuesday 1/31: |
Quantifiers and Specialization
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Thursday 2/2: |
Quantified Quantifiers
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Monday 2/6: |
Negations and Proof by Contradiction
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Tuesday 2/7: |
Contrapositives
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Thursday 2/9: |
Proof by Induction
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Monday 2/13: |
Proof by Induction
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Tuesday 2/14: |
You guessed it: Proof by Induction
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Thursday 2/16: |
Functions
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Monday 2/20: |
Equivalence Relations
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Tuesday, 2/21: |
Introduction to Groups
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Thursday, 2/23: |
More on Groups
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Monday, 2/24: |
More on Groups
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Tuesday 2/28: |
Still More on Groups
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Thursday 3/2: |
Introduction to Analysis
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Monday, 3/6: |
More on Analysis
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Tuesday 3/7: |
Still More on Analysis
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Thursday 3/9: |
Midterm EXAM
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Monday, 3/27: |
Set Theory
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Tuesday, 3/28: |
Topology
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Thursday 3/30: |
More on Topology
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Monday, 4/3: |
To Infinity...and no further
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Tuesday, 4/4: |
WHITMAN UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
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Thursday 4/6: |
Beginning Surreal Numbers
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Monday, 4/10: |
Surreal Numbers
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Tuesday, 4/11: |
Surreal Numbers
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Thursday 4/13: |
Surreal Numbers
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Monday, 4/17: |
Surreal Numbers
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Tuesday 4/18: |
Surreal Numbers
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Thursday 4/20: |
Surreal Numbers
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Monday 4/24: |
Surreal Numbers
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Tuesday, 4/25: |
Wrapup of Surreal Numbers
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Thursday 4/27: |
Midterm 2
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Monday, 5/1: |
Topics TBA
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Tuesday, 5/2: |
Topics TBA
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Thursday, 5/4: |
Topics TBA
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Monday, 5/8: |
Topics TBA
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Tuesday, 5/9: |
Course Recap and Review for Final
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Final Exam: Monday, May 15 9-11 AM |
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