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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 9/1 
Sec 1.1:  1, 12, 19, 26, 29, 35

Day Date Topic Homework (TENTATIVE)
1 8/27/2015 Sec 1.1: Sets Sec 1.1: 1, 12, 19, 26, 29, 35
2 9/1/2015 Sec 1.2, 1.3: Cartesian Products, Subsets (Webwork 1)
3 9/3/2015 Sec 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7: Set operations (Webwork 2)
4 9/8/2015 Sec 1.7, 1.8, 2.1: Collections of sets Sec 1.8: 3, 5, 6, 8
9/10/2015 MONDAY SCHEDULE
9/15/2015 NO CLASSES SCHEDULED
5 9/17/2015 Sec 2.1, 2.2, 2.3: Statements (and, or, not, if) (Webwork 3)
9/22/2015 NO CLASSES SCHEDULED
6 9/24/2015 Sec 2.4, 2.5, 2.6: Biconditional, Truth tables, Logical equivalence (Webwork 3)
7 9/25/2015 NOTE: CLASSES FOLLOW TUESDAY SCHEDULE
Sec 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11: Quantifiers, Translation, Negation
(Webwork 4)
8 9/29/2015 Sec 3.1, 3.2: Lists, factorials (Webwork 5)
9 10/1/2015 EXAM 1 (through 2.6)
10 10/6/2015 Sec 3.3. 3.4: Counting subsets, Binomial Theorem
(Chapter 4: Direct Proof)
(Webwork 6)
11 10/8/2015 Chapter 4: Definitions, Basic facts
12 10/13/2015 Chapter 4: Direct proof Chapter 4 p.100: 1, 6, 15, 16
13 10/15/2015 Chapter 5: Contrapositive Proof Chapter 5 p.110: 1, 4, 20
14 10/20/2015 Chapter 6: Proof by contradiction Chapter 6 p.116: 3,4,5,8,9
15 10/22/2015 EXAM 2 (through Chapter 5)
(midsemester grades due)
16 10/27/2015 Chapter 7: If-and-only-if proofs; existence proofs Chapter 7 p129: 5, 9, 10, 12
17 10/29/2015 Chapter 8: Proofs involving sets Chapter 8 p143: 3, 7, 18, 19
18 11/3/2015 Chapter 9: Disproof Chapter 9 p152: 3, 4, 5
19 11/5/2015 Chapter 10: Induction (introduction) Chapter 10 p167: 1, 2, 10, 15
20 11/10/2015 Chapter 10: Induction (examples)
21 11/12/2015 Chapter 10: Strong Induction, proof by minimum counterexample Chapter 10 p167: 25, 28 (extra credit: 30)
22 11/17/2015 Sec 11.0, 11.1: Relations and their properties Section 11.0 p178: 3,4
(Webwork 7)
23 11/19/2015 Sec 11.2, 11.3, 11.4: Equivalence relations and partitions, Integers modulo n
real numbers, graph theory
Sec 11.2 p187: 1,2,7
In addition, complete Example 11.8 at the top of p182.
24 11/24/2015 EXAM 3 (through Sec 11.1)
11/26/2015 COLLEGE CLOSED
25 12/1/2015 Sec 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.4: Relations between sets, Functions, Injective and surjective functions , Composition of Functions Sec 12.1 p200: 1,3,7,10
Sec 12.2 p204: 1,7,8
Sec 12.4 p210: 3, 7, 10
26 12/3/2015 Sec 12.3: The pigeonhole principle Sec 12.3 p207: 1
27 12/8/2015 Sec 12.5, 12.6: Inverse functions, image and preimage Sec 12.5 p214: 2, 6
Sec 12.6 p216: 1, 2
28 12/10/2015 Sec 13.1: Cardinality Sec 13.1 p222: 1, 4, 5
29 12/15/2015 Sec 13.2: Countable and uncountable sets
Sec 13.3: Comparing Cardinalities
none
30 12/17/2015 FINAL EXAM

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