LECTURER
Dr. Andrew D. Loveless
aloveles@math.washington.edu
Office: Padelford C-339
Office hours: Click Here
EXAM DATES
Midterm 1: July 17
Midterm 2: August 7
Final Exam: August 21
OLD EXAMS
The following link will take you to an archive of past exams and solutions:
Exam Archive
Welcome!
Most course materials can be found at the right of the page. If you have a question, please contact me or your TA, directly or by e-mail.
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Announcements:
- Announced 8/12/2009: Please note the following website updates:
- Updated grades have been posted.
- A review of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 are online.
- Please see the final exam section of the exam archive for a long list of practice questions for the final.
- Announced 8/6/2009: Exam 2 is Friday. Coverage includes Chapters 3, 4, 5 (Pascal's Identity/Binomial Theorem), and 6. At the right of the page you will find review sheets. You are only responsible for the part of chapter 6 discussed in lecture and in the assigned problems. Also make sure to check the grades.
- Announced 7/29/2009: There are two new postings at the right of this screen (also the grades have been updated):
- Announced 7/15/2009: EXAM 1 IS FRIDAY! You should be reviewing all the posted homework solutions along with all the old exams in the archive and all examples from lecture. At the right of this page I have added two documents:
- Announced 7/6/2009: At the right of this page you will find the following updates:
- An overview of basic chapter 2 concepts.
- Several additional examples from chapter 2 with solutions (this contains the solutions to 2.44(b), 2.50(c), 2.51(b), and 2.52, which are similar to assigned problems).
- The grades after HW 1 have been posted. At this point the posted grades mean absolutely nothing since we are so early in the term! There are a lot of points left to greatly raise (or lower) your grade, and remember that your lowest homework score is dropped.
- Announced 6/21/2009: For those of you new to proofs who need some more examples then provided in the text or online, I encourage you to try the following websites and supplemental material (a word of caution: I have not carefully reviewed every part of all of the sites or books listed below, so use them only as a secondary reference). If you are struggling, it would be a good idea to try to check out one of these other books from the library so that you had more examples to look at:
- Proofs by Larry Cusick, CSU-Fresno contains examples of proof mechanics and a dicussion of proof methods.
- Proofs in Mathematics Contains a short description of proofs along with several examples (you need to scroll down the page to see the examples).
- A quick search of the library catalog brings up the following titles which pertain to mathmatical thinking and proofs. These all can be found in the math research library (Padelford C-Wing, across from the elevator on the third floor):
- How to read and do proofs - Solow, Daniel ; Math Stacks QA9.54.S65.2005
- An introduction to mathematical reasoning - Eccles, Peter J. ; Odegaard Reserve QA9.54.E23.1997
- Proofs and fundamentals - Bloch, Ethan ; Math Stacks QA9.54.B57.2000
- An introduction to mathematical thinking - Gilbert, William ; Math Stacks QA10.G55.2005
- And you can find many more by searching for "Proof Theory" in the library catalog.
- Announced 6/20/2009: Welcome to Math 300.
Your first task is to get the textbook at the bookstore. Then I suggest you explore the links at the right of the page. I will be posting several helpful review sheets and homework hints throughout the quarter, so check back frequently.