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A preliminary calendar is below.  Note that exam dates and homework assignments are tentative, and will be confirmed as the dates approach.  Your first homework assignment is:

Homework #1, due next Tuesday 9/2 
Sec 1.1:  1, 12, 19, 26, 29, 35

Day Date Topic Homework (tentative)
1 8/28/2014 Sec 1.1: Sets Sec 1.1: 1, 12, 19, 26, 29, 35
2 9/2/2014 Sec 1.2, 1.3: Cartesian Products, Subsets (Webwork 1)
3 9/4/2014 Sec 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7: Set operations (Webwork 2)
4 9/9/2014 Sec 1.7, 1.8, 2.1: Collections of sets Sec 1.8: 3, 5, 6, 8
5 9/11/2014 Sec 2.1, 2.2, 2.3: Statements (and, or, not, if) (Webwork 3)
6 9/16/2014 Sec 2.4, 2.5, 2.6: Biconditional, Truth tables, Logical equivalence (Webwork 3)
7 9/18/2014 Sec 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11: Quantifiers, Translation, Negation (Webwork 4)
9/23/2014 FRIDAY SCHEDULE
9/25/2014 NO CLASSES
8 9/30/2014 EXAM 1 (through 2.6)
9 10/2/2014 Sec 3.1, 3.2: Lists, factorials (Webwork 5)
10 10/7/2014 Sec 3.3. 3.4: Counting subsets, Binomial Theorem
(Chapter 4: Direct Proof)
(Webwork 5)
11 10/9/2014 Chapter 4: Direct proof 1, 6, 15, 16
12 10/14/2014 Chapter 5: Contrapositive Proof 1, 4, 20
13 10/16/2014 Chapter 6: Proof by contradiction Chapter 6 p.116: 5, 8
14 10/21/2014 Chapter 7: If-and-only-if proofs; existence proofs Chapter 7 p127: one even and one odd numbered problem of your choice
15 10/23/2014 EXAM 2 (through Chapter 6)
(midsemester grades due)
16 10/28/2014 Chapter 8: Proofs involving sets Chapter 8 p143: 3, 8, 18, 19
17 10/30/2014 Chapter 9: Disproof Chapter 9 p150: 3, 4, 5
18 11/4/2014 Chapter 10: Induction (introduction) Chapter 10 p167: 1, 2, 10, 15
19 11/6/2014 Chapter 10: Induction (examples)
20 11/11/2014 Chapter 10: Strong Induction, proof by minimum counterexample Chapter 10 p167: 25, 28 (extra credit: 30)
21 11/13/2014 Sec 11.0, 11.1: Relations and their properties Section 11.0 p176: 3,4
(Webwork 6)
22 11/18/2014 Sec 11.2, 11.3, 11.4: Equivalence relations and partitions, Integers modulo n
real numbers, graph theory
Sec 11.2 p185: 1,2,7
In addition, complete Example 11.8 at the top of p180.
23 11/20/2014 EXAM 3 (through Sec 11.1)
24 11/25/2014 Sec 11.5, 12.1: Relations between sets, Functions Sec 12.1 p198: 1,3,9,11
11/27/2014 COLLEGE CLOSED
25 12/2/2014 Sec 12.2: Injective and surjective functions Sec 12.2 p201: 1,7,8,12
26 12/4/2014 Sec 12.3, 12.4: The pigeonhole principle, Composition of functions Sec 12.4 p208: 3, 7, 10
27 12/9/2014 Sec 12.5: Inverse functions Sec 12.5 p212: 2, 6
28 12/11/2014 Sec 12.6, 13.1: Image and preimage, Cardinality Sec 12.6 p214: 1, 2
Sec 13.1 p220: 1, 4
29 12/16/2014 Sec 13.2: Countable and uncountable sets
Sec 13.3: Comparing Cardinalities
none
30 12/18/2014 FINAL EXAM

 

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