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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