All homeworks are due Wednesday Thursday at 10am Chicago Time. We will post each week's homework at least one full 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!A LaTeX template is available for typsetting homework solutions.
- Homework 0, due Feb 3 – LaTeX source – Solutions
- Homework 1, due Feb 10 – Solutions
- Homework 2, due Feb
1718 – Solutions- Homework 3, due Feb
2425 – Solutions- No homework due Mar 3 – Week of Midterm 1
- Homework 4, due Mar 11 – Solutions
- Homework 5, due Mar 18 – Solutions
- Homework 6, due Mar
2526 – Solutions- Homework 7, due Apr
12 – Solutions- Homework 8, due Apr
89 – Solutions- No homework due April 15 – Week of Midterm 2
- Homework 9, due April 22 – Solutions
- Homework 10, due April 29 – Solutions
- Homework 11 (practice),
due May 6– Solutions
Links for future exams and solutions are placeholders. Only the most common version is posted here; we do not expect to post the conflicts this semester. Don't forget to read the exam policies!
- Midterm 1 Monday, March 1 Solutions
- Midterm 2 Monday, April 12 Solutions
- Final exam Monday, May 10
| 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 |