Course Notes & Resources
If you're feeling rusty, check out the dept's prerequisite materials
Notes will appear here as we move through the term
Homework
Six homeworks will be collected during Thursday discussion sections starting in week 2: quizzes are held at the same time. All exercises are found in the above notes and numbered accordingly: DON'T submit exercises from the `official' textbook. Solutions will be posted within Canvas.
- HW1: due Thursday 13th January (week 2)
- Section 1.1: Question 2
- Section 1.2: Questions 2, 3, 4(a), 7, 8, 11(a), 13(a,b)
- HW2: due Thursday 20th January (week 3)
- Section 1.3: Questions 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11
- HW3: due Thursday 27th January (week 4)
- Section 1.4: Questions 1, 2, 3(a), 4, 5, 8
- Section 1.5: no questions (non-examinable)
- Section 2.1: Questions 1(a), 3, 4
- The rest of chapter 2 is on the midterm, but no questions will be collected.
- HW4: due Thursday 17th February (week 7) - continue to submit online!
- Section 3.1: Questions 1, 2
- Section 3.2: Questions 1(a,b), 2(a,b), 4, 6
- HW5: due Thursday 24th February (week 8)
- Section 4.1: 1, 3
- Section 4.2: 1(A), 2, 5 (more from 4.2 will be in the last homework)
- HW6: due Thursday 3rd March (week 9)
- Section 4.2: Questions 6, 7, 8, 9, 11
- Section 4.3: no questions for submission - this is non-examinable
- Section 5.1: Questions 1, 2, 4
- Sections 5.2, 5.3: no questions for submission - these are examinable and are on the final!
You're encouraged type your solutions using LaTeX: it's very good for the soul, and important to learn if you're considering grad school. If you've never used LaTeX before, start here.
Pictures are a nastier business: just leave some space (\vspace*{4cm} or \newpage will do the trick) and draw in by hand. If you insist on the path of masochism, or just love coding, all the pictures in the notes were made using Asymptote: feel free to ask if you're interested...