All homeworks are due Wednesday at 10am. We will post each week's homework at least one week before the due date; we will post solutions on Moodle within a couple of days of the due date. Don't forget to read the homework policies!
- Homework 0 [tex], due January 25 LaTeX solution template
- Homework 1 [tex], due February 1
- Homework 2 [tex], due February 8
- Homework 3 [tex], due February 15
- Homework 4 [tex], due March 1
- Homework 5 [tex], due March 8
- Homework 6 [tex], due March 15
- Homework 7 [tex], due March 29
- Homework 8 [tex], due April 5
- Homework 9 [tex], due April 19
- Homework 10 [tex], due April 26
(Links for future exams are placeholders. Solutions will be posted on Moodle.)
- Midterm 1 Monday, February 20, 7-9 pm
- Midterm 2 Monday, April 10, 7-9 pm
- Final exam TBD
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 |