Syllabus
What follows is the tentative syllabus for MAT 200, Lecture 1.
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Lectures |
Topic |
| Week 1 (9/4 - 9/7) |
1 |
1. Language of math |
| Week 2 (9/10 - 9/14) |
2-3 |
2. Implications; 3. Proofs |
| Week 3 (9/17 - 9/22) |
4-5 |
9/19: last day to drop without "W" 4. Proof by Contradiction; 5. Proofs by Induction; |
| Week 4 (9/24 - 9/28) |
6-7 |
6. Language of set theory; 7. Quantifiers; |
| Week 5 (10/1 - 10/5) |
8-9 |
8. Functions; 9. Injections, Surjections, Bijections |
| Week 6 (10/8 - 10/12) |
10 |
9. Injections etc. continued; Midterm 1; |
| Week 7 (10/15 - 10/19) |
11-12 |
10. Counting; 11. Finite sets |
| Week 8 (10/22 - 10/26) |
13-14 |
12. Counting Functions and Subsets; 13. Number Systems |
| Week 9 (10/29 - 11/2) |
15-16 |
14. Counting Infinite Sets |
| Week 10 (11/5 - 11/9) |
17-18 |
11/5: Last day to drop a class Geometry: §1 (Introduction) through §4 (Protractor Axiom) |
| Week 11 (11/12 - 11/16) |
19-20 |
Geometry: §5 (Triangles) |
| Week 12 (11/19 - 11/23) |
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Midterm 2 11/21: no class (correction day) |
| Week 13 (11/26 - 11/30) |
21-22 |
Geometry: §6 (Parallels) and §7 (Similarity) |
| Week 14 (12/3 - 12/7) |
23-24 |
19. Modular Arithmetic; 21. Congruence Classes |
| Week 15 (12/10 - 12/14) |
25-26 |
21. Congruence Classes (continued); 22. Partitions and Equivalence Relations |
| Dec 19 |
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Final Exam (5:00pm-7:30pm) |
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