Math 120 D, Autumn 1997

Instructor: Paul Tseng
E-mail:tseng@math.washington.edu
Office: C-344 Padelford
Office Hours: T, Th: 10:30-12:00 or whenever I am free
Lecture: MWF 1:30-2:20 PM, Sieg 134
Teaching Assistants: DA & DB: Yuki Horiguchi (Office: Guggenheim 417; Email: yuki@amath.washington.edu) DC & DD: Steve Tanner (Office: Padelford C-435; Email: tanner@math.washington.edu)
Textbook: Precalculus, A First Course in Problem Solving (version: 1997-98) by David H. Collingwood (available from Professional Copy `n' Print, 4200 University Way NE; 634-2689). [This will be supplemented by lecture notes, to be distributed regularly in class.]
Syllabus

Prerequisites for Math 120

Announcement
- The midterm is in two parts and is on Wednsday, Nov 5 & Thursday, Nov 6
- The final exam is on Saturday, December 13,5-7:50 pm (KNE 210 for DA, DB & KNE 220 for DC, DD).

Notes and Comments
- If you have questions about the lectures, grades, homeworks, or just about the course in general, feel free to email me at tseng@math.washington.edu if that is easier.
- Quizzes by other 120 instructors
- Typos in the Textbook (Collingwood)
- Typos in the Textbook

The following lecture handouts come in two types, with or without the handrawn figures. The ones without figures have a larger character size and can be printed as Postscript files. The ones with figures have a smaller character size and need to be stored as bitmap files for printing. Hardcopies of the handouts were distributed in class and extra copies have been placed outside the instructor's office at Padelford C-344.

Handout 1 Sep 29, Chap 1

Handout 2 Oct 6, Chap 1 & 2

Handout 3 Oct 10, Chap 2

Handout 4 Oct 17, Chap 3

Handout 5 Oct 22, Chap 3

Handout 6 Oct 27, Chap 3

Handout 7 Oct 31, Midterm Preparation

Handout 8 Nov 7, Chap 4

Handout 9 Nov 12, Chap 4

Handout 10 Nov 17, Chap 4

Handout 11 Nov 21, Chap 5

Handout 12 Nov 26, Chap 5

Handout 13 Dec 3, Chap 5

Handout 14 Dec 5, Final Review

Math Quotes

If it's incomprehensible, it's mathematics. -- Bennett Cern

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. -- Joseph Glanvill

an excessive study of mathematics absolutely incapacitates the mind... -- Sir William Hamilton

Round numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. -- Joseph-Louis Lagrange

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus. -- Karl Marx

How is error possible in mathematics? -- Henri Poincare

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. -- Walt Whitman

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. -- John Adams

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