Math 544, Autumn 2007 - Homework Assignments
Current assignments listed here.
Previous assignments.
Reminders:
- Homework always includes working out all the exercises in the text
for yourself, even though you don't have to turn them in.
- In each Reading Report, please address the following questions.
- What do you think was the most important idea (or one of
the most important ideas) in the reading, and why?
- What is another idea in the reading that you thought was
important or interesting, and why?
- What questions do you have about the reading, or what
parts of it would you most like to see addressed in class?
Current Assignments:
- Week 9.
No Reading Report required.
Finish/review Chapter 10, and if you wish, get started on Chapter 11.
Problems to work out for yourself: 9-2, 10-2, and 10-3.
At least read 9-8.
Written homework, due Friday, 11/30:
Problems 9-3, 9-4, 9-7, 10-4(c)&(d) (Note correction, not b&c!),
and 10-8.
- Week 10.
Reading Report due by noon, Monday, December 3. Read Chapter 11
and Chapter 12 through the top of p. 302.
(Your report on pp. 302-314 will be the first for winter
quarter, due on Tuesday, January 8.)
Problems to work out for yourself: 10-1, 11-1, 11-2.
Read Problem 10-5 to see an example of a topological inspiration for an
algebraic proof.
Written homework, due Friday, 12/7:
Problems 10-6, 10-7, 10-11, 11-3, and 11-14.
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