Math
467 Schedule
Spring 2008
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Math Into LaTeX
Thursday 15 May
Final Exam.
2 - 4 pm in 201 LDB.
Practice Final Exam
Thursday 8 May
Last Class Day.
Student presentations:
Alex
Alex's slides
Mark
Mark's slides
Daniel
Daniel's slides
Tuesday 6 May
Problems through Chapter 11 due. No homework accepted after this date.
Student presentations:
August
August's slides
Paul
Paul's slides
Roger
Roger's slides
Thursday 1 May
Student presentations:
Felix
Felix's slides
Rebecca
Rebecca's slides
Mike
Slide template (tex)
Slide template (pdf)
Tuesday 29 April
Final version due.
Daniel's paper
Mike's paper
Roger's paper
Paul's paper
August's paper
Alex's paper
Mark's paper
Rebecca's paper
Felix's paper
Sample slides tex
Sample slides pdf
Thursday 24 April
Chapter 11 discussed.
Tuesday 22 April
No class.
Thursday 17 April
Problems 10.1a presented.
Tuesday 15 April
Presentations discussed and
scheduled.
Problems 10.4a, 10.5a discussed.
Thursday 10 April
Discussion about plagiarism.
Tuesday 8 April
Chapter 10 discussed.
Thursday 3 April
No class.
Thursday 3 April
No class.
Tuesday 1 April
Problems 9.1c, 9.3a, 9.7a
presented.
Rough draft due - bring two
copies of your paper to class.
Homework from Chapter 4, 5, 6, and 7 due.
Thursday 27 March
Chapter 9 discussed.
Problems 6.5a, 7.3a, 8.7 a-e, 8.10b presented.
Tuesday 25 March
Problems 4.1b, 4.12 a, 6.1c, 7.3d, 8.3c, 8.4c, 8.10b, 8.11b presented.
Thursday 20 March
Chapter 7 (Chinese, Hindu, and
Moslem mathematics) discussed.
Problems 4.1a, 7.3c, 7.5a, 7.8e, 8.3b presented.
Tuesday 18 March
Chapter 7 (Chinese mathematics)
discussed.
Problems 5.13c, 7.5b presented.
Thursday 6 March
Detailed outline due.
Mid-term exam.
Tuesday 4 March
Study for Exam!
Problems 4.1a, 5.1e, 5.8, 5.10a, 6.13, 6.15b discussed.
Thursday 28 February
Last day homework from Chapters
1, 2, and 3 will be accepted.
Thursday 28 February
Chapter 6 discussed.
Problems 2.3, 3.3 and 5.1a presented.
Thursday 21 February
Chapter 5 discussed.
Problem 3.8d presented.
Practice Exam 1
Tuesday 19 February
Chapter 4 completed
Problems 2.9d, 3.7d, 3.15a
presented.
Thursday 14 February
Problems 2.9c, 2.9e, 3.4abc,
3.7g, 3.8a, 3.8b, 3.8c
Sample slides using the beamer
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(Downloadable TeX)
Smple slide using the beamer package (TeX
source code)
Sample slides using the beamer package (pdf)
Jensen's paper
(Downloadable TeX)
Jensen's paper (TeX
source code)
Jensen's paper (pdf)
Tuesday 12 February
Brief outline due.
Mathematical Journal Article
due.
Chapter 4 begun - doubling the cube.
Problems 1.8e, 2.9abc, 2.9e (begun - Daniel), 2.13, 3.8b (begun -
Felix) presented.
Ryan's article
Ryan's other article
Daniel's article
Felix's article
August's article
Rebecca's article
Mark's article
Thursday 7 February
LaTex introduction, cont.
Tuesday 5 February
LaTeX introduction.
Test.tex
Test.pdf
Solution.tex
Solution.pdf
Picture.pdf
Thursday 31 January
Chapter 3 completed.
Problems 1.8d, 2.4f, 2.4g, 2.6ab, and 3.6 presented.
Tuesday 29 January
Chapter 3 discussed (up to
Euclid).
Problem 1.7 presented.
Problem 1.8d begun.
Thursday 24 January
Chapter 2 discussed.
Problems 1.2 hij, 1.6 abc, 1.8 abc presented.
Project topics due:
Ryan - Napolean, Campollion, and the Rosetta Stone
Mike P - Pythagorean number mysiticism
Roger - The case for Archimedes as the inventor of the calculus
Daniel - History of early Japanese mathematics
Alex - Leonardo da Vinci and mathematics
Mike O. - Napolean Bonaparte and mathematics
August - Jacob Steiner and Julius Plucker contrasted
Rebecca - Kurt Goedel and his theorems
Paul - The greatest French
Mathematician of the 17th century
Mark - Grotefend, Rawlinson, and the Behistun Rock
Tuesday 22 January
Syllabus discussed.
Chapter 1 discussed.
Problems ..... presented.
Thursday 17 January
Syllabus distributed.
Introduction to Math History.
