All homeworks are due Tuesday at 8pm. We will post each week's homework at least one week before the due date; we will post solutions at most a day after the due date. (Links for future homeworks and solutions are placeholders.) Don't forget to read the homework policies!
- Homework 0, due August 30 — Solutions — LaTeX solution template
- Homework 1, due September 6 — Solutions
- Homework 2, due September 13 — Solutions
- Homework 3, due September 20 — Solutions
- No homework due September 27 — Midterm 1
- Homework 4, due October 4 — Solutions
- Homework 5, due October 11 — Solutions
- Homework 6, due October 18 — Solutions
- Homework 7, due October 25 — Solutions
- Homework 8, due November 1 — Solutions
- No homework due November 8 — Midterm 2
- Homework 9, due November 15 — Solutions
- No homework due November 22 — Thanksgiving break
- Homework 10, due November 29 — Solutions
- Homework 11, due December 6 — Solutions
(Links for future exams and solutions are placeholders.)
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seek the simple solution. |
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (c. 1890) |
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle. Because of this, I do not know why even questions which bear so little relationship to mathematics are solved more quickly by mathematicians than by others. |
— Leonhard Euler, describing the Königsburg bridge problem in a letter to Carl Leonhard Gottlieb Ehler, April 3, 1736 |