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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) |
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| 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 |
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| 30 | 12/18/2014 | FINAL EXAM |
