All homeworks are due Tuesday at 8pm, uploaded to Gradescope. We will post each week's homework at least one week before the due date on Moodle; we will post solutions at most three days after the due date. Don't forget to read the homework policies! All solutions will be posted on Moodle.
- LaTeX template for all homeworks
Midterm 1 Information (Syllabus)
Monday February 19, 7-9pm.Midterm 2 Information (Syllabus)
Monday April 9, 7-9pm.Final Exam Information
Tuesday May 8, 8-11am.
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 |