| 5/12/2020 |
a.
I have uploaded your letter grades and some computational columns to BB.
The meaning of those columns is as follows:
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QSum: Sum of all 10 quizzes
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hwkSum: of all your homework, before scaling to 400 grade points
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hwkAdj:
Grade points for your homework:
What you have in hwkSum, multiplied by 400/52 = 7.69
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TOTAL: The unadjusted total for all your exams, quizzes, and homework
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TOTALadj:
The value of TOTAL, rounded up to the next integer
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GrandTotAdj:
The value of TOTALadj, plus 25 extra points for good behavior
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Grade: the letter grade according to your points in GrandTotAdj
according to the ORIGINAL grading scale
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GradeAdj: the letter grade according to your points in GrandTotAdj
according to the AMENDED grading scale
This is the grade I will record for you in BU Brain
b.
This semester was a tough one for everyone,
and I do hope that things will be back to the way they were
when the Fall semester starts.
Please accept my best wishes for your future,
academic and otherwise. -- Michael Fochler --
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| 5/9/2020 |
a.
I have uploaded the scores for hwk 14 and 15 and the final exam to BB.
You will find the results for the proofs part in the "Final-PDF" column.
The "Final-BB" column is just a copy of the
"Math 330 A06, BB Part of Final Exam" column.
The "Final" column (between "Exam 2" and "Quiz 1") is the sum of both
PDF + BB parts.
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Be sure to check the homework points you see against
your records!
If you see any discrepancies you must let me know
by MONDAY EVENING!
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b.
The columns between "Hwk 15" and "Spring 2020 BB Sample Quiz"
will not be uploaded until I receive a still missing homework 15 from one of you
whom I gave a Monday extension on grounds of an unfortunate family event.
I cannot compute your grading scale until I have received that homework set.
I should be able to tell you your letter grade sometime on Tuesday.
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| 5/7/2020 |
I have updated page 1 of the final (the 5/6/2020 link below)
for those who do not have access to a printer.
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| 5/6/2020 |
Here is the link to
PAGE 1 of the final exam.
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| 5/6/2020 |
Final exam online Thursday, May 7 @5:40 - 7:40 PM.
Read this announcement very carefully!
a.
The final exam will come in two separate parts.
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part 1 is a PDF with five proofs and a few fill in the blanks questions.
The PDF will be emailed to you at the start time of the final with a
request for a return receipt when you open that email.
Be sure not to decline that request or you will be out of luck if
I receive your return email with your work!
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part 2 is administered via Blackboard. It will look like a very long quiz:
Many true/false questions and a few multiple choice questions.
b.
b. What’s on the exam:
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Compactness will not be on the final
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Only one of the five proofs will be about the material of ch.11 and 12.
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More than one third of the Blackboard question will be about
the material of ch.11 and 12.
c.
Avoid penalties!
I will post later today a link to the top of the finals PDF which
lists the rules you must observe.
There may be some changes and additions to what you are reading below,
so be sure not to ignore that link!
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The title page requires your signature.
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Each page, (including page 1!), requires your name.
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Figure out NOW how to create a zip file which contains all the pictures/scans
of your exam.
I do not want to see the images displayed 'inside your email'.
This means in particular that
you cannot directly email the exam from your camera unless
it allows you to create a zip archive from the pictures you have taken.
The reason for the above: I have some major annoyances trying to process
such inline picures for printing.
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I have added an extra five minutes to the exam so that you can take the time
to email the pictures from your camera to your computer if that is necessary.
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You must turn on your video when taking the exam, so make sure that
your webcam is working. If the computer you intend to use does not
have a working webcam then get a webcam or use a different computer.
Find out NOW who among your family and friends can help you out.
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Cheating:
This is an open book exam, and you may use my lecture notes and the
Beck Geoghegan Art of Proof text.
In contrast to the online quizzes and the second midterm
no other resources are allowed.
If you provide a very nonstandard proof which seems way out of line with
what I have taught you then be prepared to have a one-on-one Zoom meeting
with me in which you explain your work to me.
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d.
I cannot grade what I cannot read. Verify that your handwriting appears in
high contrast.
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Figure out NOW where to take the pictures if you do not have a
printer with a scanner. The lighting is very important so that your
work does not appear black on dark gray or the light bulb reflects on your
sheet and that excess lighting makes your writing almost invisible.
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Select the pen you will use NOW. You want one that does not write too thinly
since that means low contrast.
e.
I do not have anyone scheduled for the May 8 makeup exam, so expect you all
to participate in the exam.
Please forward to me IMMEDIATELY the email in which you requested
a makeup final if I am mistaken.
If you become ill then you must provide proof
that covers the date of the exam.
This may be in form of a telemedicine appointment receipt.
f.
I am sure you remember that you will be able to change your letter grade to
a pass/fail after you know what that letter grade will be.
Unless something unforeseen happens you will see your letter grade
in Blackboard by Wednesday of next week.
g.
I plan to make the solutions to BB quizzes 8-10 available later today.
Check for further announcements!
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| 5/2/2020 |
a.
A link to the finals review session is now available
on the course materials page.
b.
Tutoring session by Matt Pressimone from UTS (Starfish):
Wednesday, May 6 @1:00 PM.
I will email you the Zoom link for that session.
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| 4/30/2020 |
I will hold the finals review session on Saturday, May 2, at 1:00.
Duration will be between 2 and 3 hours.
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| 4/27/2020 |
a.
I will hold a finals review on either this Saturday, Sunday,
or next week Tuesday.
I'll put to a vote on which day you want that review session and
whether you want it in the morning, during mid-day, or in the afternoon.
I suggest the weekend, so you can use my hints to put more focus
to your studies.
Whatever I'll teach on next Monday will not be on the final,
except possibly in a very hidden form.
I will record the review session.
b.
Matt Pressimone from UTS also will hold a finals review session.
He attended my Math 330 course, and he probably is the (only) UTS tutor
who can help you with the non-B/G material.
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| 4/22/2020 |
Homework 15 has been posted. Due Wed May 5 (last day of classes)!
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| 4/19/2020 |
Quiz 8 tomorrow (Mon 4/20/2020:
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The quiz will be given on BB in the form of 20 separate true/false questions.
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Some of those questions belong thematically together, but the questions will
be randomized, so you will encounter those questions not consecutively.
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You are advised to
scroll through all questions before you start solving them,
so you can solve related problems in sequence.
That will probably solve you time.
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Scope of the quiz: ch.9.3, ch.9.8, ch.11.2.2, ch.12.1.1-12.1.4
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| 4/18/2020 |
a.
Midterm 2 grades have been uploaded. I will email the graded exams on Sunday
or Tuesday. It took me longer to to convert your BB uploads or emails to
printable PDFs than the actual grading, and I will not go through that again.
Two rules for the final exam (for now):
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No pencil allowed: I need high contrast.
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Your name belongs on EACH page that you upload as part of the exam.
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More to follow.
b.
Homework 14 has been posted.
c.
All Zoom lectures have been posted.
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| 4/9/2020 |
Update to today's earlier announcement:
Scope of midterm 2 is ch.7 - 10.
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| 4/9/2020 |
a.
Midterm 2 will be available on BB this coming Wednesday, April 15, at 4:45 PM.
You will then find the following instructions on how to submit your solutions.
Read them now so you don't waste time when you take the exam!
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Use a scanner if you have one, otherwise take very clear pictures of each page,
and email them to your computer.
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If you did not use a scanner then you will have to archive those pictures
into a single zip file which you then BOTH email to me AND also upload to BB
as answer to this File Response "Question".
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The file name will be lastname-firstname-quiz07.xyz.
Here the file extension .xyz would be most likely .pdf if you have a scanner,
or .zip if you must combine several images into a single file.
For example Matt Dobiesz would turn in the file Dobiesz-Matthew-quiz07.xyz.
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No need to double space, so you should not need more than three or four pages
for your work.
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Use some common sense:
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If I cannot read what you write then you will not have a second chance
to get it right.
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IMPORTANT: Leave some margins on top, bottom, and both sides
so that your pictures contain all your work!
•3.
Before you take the pictures, see to it that there is enough bright light
so that there is a strong contrast between your writing and your paper.
•4.
To that end, use WHITE PAPER, and not yellow paper!
b.
Homework 13 has been published. Due Friday, April 24.
c.
Course materials page has been updated with all Zoom lectures.
d.
New version 2020-04-09 of the MF doc is now available.
Close to no updates!
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| 4/3/2020 |
I will give quiz 7 today, Friday, April 3 at the usual time.
a.
The quiz will be administered via Blackboard, but only to take advantage of
its timer features: The quiz will be accessible from 5:55 until 6:25
for a duration of 20 minutes once you begin,
but you should START NO LATER THAN 6:05 to get your full 20 minutes
since I set BB not accept submissions after 6:25.
b.
There will be four problems, and each one will consist of multiple True/False questions
For example, problem 3 consists of 6 statements
3a) ... 3b) ... 3c) ...
3d) ... 3e) ... 3f) ...
Assuming you decide that 3a, 3c, 3e are true and the others are false,
I expect you to write
3a) True, 3b) False, 3c) True
3d) False, 3e) True, 3f) False
and I do not want you to change the layout since if you do so this will increase
the likelihood that I'll make a grading error.
c.
You will provide your answers as a TYPE WRITTEN PLAIN TEXT file and submit it TWICE:
a. as a file upload to BB (you will be asked to do so at the very bottom of the quiz).
b. via email to mfochler@math.binghamton.edu
The file name will be lastname-firstname-quiz07.xyz.
Here the file extension .xyz would be determined by
your editor software (should be .txt or .docx or .rtf).
For example Matt Dobiesz would turn in the file Dobiesz-Matthew-quiz07.xyz.
Why do I ask you to turn in your solutions twice? That's FOR YOUR PROTECTION. There are times where
your internet provider will delay the transmission of your email for a significant amount of time,
and if your email time stamp is past the deadline then I will verify on Blackboard that you did
submit the quiz on time. I will look at the file submitted by email when I grade your work since
it is a lot faster for me to open my email and move your file to the appropriate folder
than downloading it from BB where I obtain a very cryptic file name which I then must modify.
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| 3/28/2020 |
The link for my linear algebra tutorial can be found on the course materials page.
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| 3/27/2020 |
a.
The link for today's lecture can be found on the course materials page.
b.
Reminder: I will hold a linear algebra tutorial tomorrow, Sat, March 28,
from 1:00 until 3:00. There will be a break approximately after one hour.
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| 3/27/2020 |
a.
Homework 12 has been published. No written assignments!
b.
Today's lecture should be available as a recording in the late evening.
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| 3/27/2020 |
a.
I have repeated last Wednesday's lecture that I had forgotten to record.
The recording is now available at the bottom of the course materials page.
b.
I have uploaded all homework grades through assignment 9 on BB.
I will email the graded assignments to you sometime this weekend.
c.
I intend to give a linear algebra tutorial session on Saturday,
March 28, at 1:00 PM. This session will be recorded.
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| 3/25/2020 |
a.
Written assignments have been added to homework 11.
b.
I have updated the instructions on how to use plain text to display
math formulas.
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| 3/23/2020 |
a.
Update on UTS tutoring: Matt Pressimone, a student who took my course
and thus understands all of the material I am teaching, is one of
the UTS tutors for Math 330. He announced that
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b.
Homework grades through hwk 9 are now on BB.
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| 3/22/2020 |
a.
The reading assignments for homework 11 have been published.
The written assignments will follow asap.
b.
Starting with homework set #10 (!) I require that you submit your homework
in typewritten form. You can use the MS Word Equation Editor or Latex if
you know how to use it (give me the source! - steep learning curve!)
or just a plain .txt file which you write according to the instructions found
HERE.
If your name is Jane Doe and you submit version 2 of homework 12 then
you MUST name your file 'Doe-Jane-hw12-v2.xyz' where the extension would be
.txt for text files, .xdoc for Word files, or .tex for Latex files.
Note that I have rewritten the homework 10 assignments to follow the conventions
for .txt files!
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| 3/20/2020 |
The course materials page now contains a subsection titled
'Recorded Zoom Lectures'.
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| 3/18/2020 |
The info on the course materials page concerning Zoom has been corrected:
some of it was the version that applies to faculty only.
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| 3/16/2020 |
Quiz #6 results have been posted to BB and the grades page.
Quiz #7 will count double for those who missed quiz #6 today.
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| 3/15/2020 |
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This entire website has been updated with the changes required by
the switch to distance learning which will take effect,
for this course, on Friday, March 20.
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Be sure to review in particular the course materials page and the syllabus!
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| 3/14/2020 |
a.
Quiz #6 will be given Monday, March 16. Those who decide to leave town
must send me an email to that effect, and I will count quiz #7 also for #6.
b.
Homework 10 has been posted. Due Friday, March 27.
c.
We will transition to distance teaching on Friday, March 20.
A major update to this website will be forthcoming to detail the changes,
probably on Tuesday. Be sure you have a headset when participating in this course
or any other so you can understand well what is being said.
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| 3/9/2020 |
The grades for quiz 5 have been posted
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| 3/9/2020 |
Today's class will start at 4:40 as usual. Remember that there will be a quiz.
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| 3/8/2020 |
a.
Quiz #5 will be given tomorrow, Monday, March 9.
b.
That class may start and end late. See today's email broadcast for details
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| 3/3/2020 |
a.
The grades for midterm 1 have been posted to BB and the Grades page,
and the grades for homework 1-6 are also on BB.
Be sure to check BB against your own records. It is very easy for a wrong
homework grade appearing on BB!
b.
Start early on hwk 8: It is one of the most challenging sets I give out,
and it is very rare that a students gets this right first time!
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| 2/29/2020 |
a.
Narrowing down the scope of midterm 1: MF ch.2, 3, 5, ch.6 through 6.12 only:
no base beta reps; B/G ch.3 (logic)
b.
The exam will start on Monday, March 2, at 4:50 PM (NOT at 4:40 PM)
and end at 5:50 PM.
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| 2/28/2020 |
MF doc ver. 2020-02-27 has been published.
Very minor bug fixes and some improved presentation (more colored boxes).
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| 2/27/2020 |
Homework assignment 9 has been published.
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| 2/26/2020 |
Quiz 4 grades are posted to BB and to the grades page.
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| 2/15/2020 |
Quiz 3 grades are posted anonymously to the grades page.
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| 2/14/2020 |
Quiz 3 grades are posted to BB. Anonymous grades will follow tomorrow,
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| 2/13/2020 |
a.
Homework assignment 6 has been published.
b.
The dates for the final and makeup final have been set.
See the home page and or schedule page.
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| 2/10/2020 |
Question
from one of your peers:
Do we have a quiz this Monday? We have had a quiz every Monday of class so far
and I was just curious because class was cancelled and I do not remember you
saying anything about a quiz? If there is a quiz, what sections will they cover?
Answer:
Quizzes are generally unannounced. I usually announce the quizzes I give before
the add/drop deadline to make my students aware of the importance of studying
the material. Now quizzes are one way to entice you not to miss class since you
will lose the points unless you email me a valid reason why you want to be
excused __before the day of the lecture__.
Also remember that you must have a doctor's note that covers the day of lecture
if illness is the reason.
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| 2/7/2020 |
Last submission date for homework 3 is now Monday, February 10, since BU
classes were canceled on February 7.
Provided that the Broome County buses will remain in service,
I will be at my office until at least 4:15 PM.
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| 2/6/2020 |
a.
Homework assignments 5 (graded once/partial credit is given) and 6
have been published. #4 has been republished since reading assignment 1
contained a wrong chapter reference.
b.
Reminder on doing homework properly: Double spaced and
single sided, please. Always staple the new version on top of the
older ones!
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| 2/3/2020 |
Grades for quiz 2 are on BB and the grades page. The add/drop deadline is
in approx. 3 hours.
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| 2/3/2020 |
Office hours for today, Monday, Feb 3, have been changed to 9:30 - 11:00 AM.
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| 1/28/2020 |
a.
Homework assignment 4 has been published. Be sure to keep up with the reading!
b.
Scope of quiz 2 (Monday): MF ch. 2.1, 2.3, 3.2 - 3.5
(ch.3.5: only what was done in last Friday's lecture).
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| 1/28/2020 |
a.
Homework assignment 3 has been published. Be sure to keep up with the reading!
b.
The grades for quiz 1 are now posted to BB and (anonymously) to the grades page
of the Math 330 website.
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| 1/25/2020 |
Homework 2: I only want to see the results. No proofs!
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| 1/25/2020 |
I fixed up the submission date for hwk1: It's Friday, 1/31 and NOT Friday, 1/29.
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| 1/13/2020 |
a.
In general I do not announce quizzes in advance, but I am making an exception
for the first two quizzes.
Quiz #1: Monday, January 27. Scope: MF ch.2.3 and MF ch.3.1 - 3.2.
Quiz #2: Monday, February 3. Scope: TBD.
I will see to it that the quiz #2 grades will be posted to BB within
4 hours after class ends.
That will be not quite two hours before the add/drop deadline.
About optional definition 3.1 (semigroups/monoids):
you ARE expected to know the meaning of associativity and neutral elments.
b.
Homework assignment 2 has been published.
It covers mostly what ch.2 contains about sets and is worth 10(!) points.
It is due this coming Wednesday (before homework 1), and it will be
graded only once.
Partial credit will be given.
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| 1/20/2020 |
Version 2020-01-18 of the MFdoc has been published.
Do not use the 2019-12-16 version!
This has the following consequences:
Some of the references given in homework 1 have been changed.
Be sure to get the updated version from the website!
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| 12/13/2019 |
The first lecture will be on Wednesday, January 22.
Don't miss it!
Homework about your math background (email - see homework page!)
is due on Friday, January 24.
The first quiz will be administered as early as January 24. |