All homeworks are due Tuesday at noon in the drop-boxes outside 1404 Siebel Center. 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 September 2 — Solutions — LaTeX solution template
- Homework 1, due September 9 — Solutions
- Homework 2, due September 16 — Solutions
- Homework 3, due September 23 — Solutions
- No homework due October 30 — Midterm 1
- Homework 4, due October 7 — Solutions
- Homework 5, due October 14 — Solutions
- Homework 6, due October 21 — Solutions
- Homework 7, due October 28 — Solutions
- Homework 8, due November 4 — Solutions
- No homework due November 11 — Midterm 2
- Homework 9, due November 18 — Solutions
- No homework due November 25 — Thanksgiving break
- Homework 10, due December 2 — Solutions
- Homework 11, due December 9 — 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. |
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—Leonhard Euler, describing the Königsburg bridge problem in a letter to Carl Leonhard Gottlieb Ehler, April 3, 1736 |