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News

2007-04-23: I am in the process of posting solutions to the sample final. Please e-mail me if there's anything in particular you'd like to see.

2007-04-21: I have posted a sample final examination.

2007-04-18: Problem Set 6 (just questions from the textbook) has been posted. I may augment it with some of my own questions later. Check back on the weekend for a sample final exam.

2007-04-10: Problem Set 5 has been posted. It will be used as the basis for Quiz 4 on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

2007-04-01: Some solutions to Sample Midterm Test 2 have been posted. Updates will continue to be posted over the next 24 hours.

2007-03-30: Sample Midterm Test 2 is now available in the resource section. Solutions will be posted over the weekend. Please let me know what you think of the length and difficulty of the test.

2007-03-26: The final exam schedule is out now. Our exam is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, 2007, from 2pm to 5pm, in EA 106.2 (our regular classroom). The exam will not be cumulative; it will be more like a midterm, and will only test the material we cover from now on in the course, i.e., counting and probability.

2007-03-22: Problem Set 4 is now available. The material will be quizzed on Tuesday, March 27, 2007.

2007-03-01: Problem Set 3 is now available. The material will be quizzed on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.

2007-02-14: I have uploaded some solutions to Problem Set 2.

2007-02-12: Midterm Test 1 will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2007. I have placed a sample midterm in the resources section below. Please let me know what you think about the difficulty level.

2007-02-10: DRAFT solutions to Quiz 1 are now available.

2007-02-08: Problem 3 of Problem Set 2 has been corrected.

Resources

• Course Outline, PDF Format
• Links for Lights Out exercise from January 16 lecture:
  • Main resource from Mathworld
  • Electronic version of the game from Hasbro
  • Java applet simulating the Hasbro version
  • Lesson plan based on the Hasbro version of the game
• Problem Set 1
• Six Degrees of Separation mini project
• Quiz 1 (corrected)
• Quiz 1 Solutions DRAFT
• Linear algebra resources
• Problem Set 2
• Problem Set 2 Solutions DRAFT (incomplete)
• Links for linear programming:
  • A great introduction to linear programming
  • A Java applet exploring the simplex method for solving LP problems (we won't be covering the simplex method in this course, however)
  • An interesting exercise demonstrating that a diet of nothing but macaroni and cheese is best
• Sample Midterm 1. The actual midterm will be printed on legal paper with more room for each question.
• Midterm Test 1
• Problem Set 3
• Quiz 2
• Problem Set 4
• Quiz 3 (corrected)
• Quiz 3 Solutions DRAFT
• Sample Midterm 2. The actual midterm will be printed on legal paper with more room for each question.
• Sample Midterm Test 2 Solutions DRAFT (incomplete)
• An interesting survey of Venn diagrams
• Problem Set 5
• Quiz 4
• Problem Set 6
• Sample Final Exam (reformatted to letter paper for your printing pleasure)
• Sample Final Solutions DRAFT (incomplete)

Old News

2007-02-01: Problem set 2 has now been posted.

2007-01-27: Please see the Six Degrees of Separation article I posted in the resources section. Please check Figure 1 to make sure that I didn't make a mistake with the data.

2007-01-23: Problem Set 1 is now available.