Math 101: Introduction to Mathematical Sciences

Section 4, Spring 2008

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: M 1:30-3:30, T 1-2, 3:30-4:30, W 1-2

Textbook: Tannenbaum, Excursions in Modern Mathematics, 6th edition, Prentice Hall 2006.

Class Meetings: TR 2:05-3:35, Frey 241

Final Exam: Thursday, May 8, 1:30 - 3:30

Other Materials

• Syllabus (66KB pdf) LaTeX source
• 37-voter election example (35KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Pay-it-forward system example (16KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Fair division example 1 (5KB png)
• Fair division example 2 (6KB png)
• Fair division example 3 (18KB png)
• Project 1 (24KB pdf) LaTeX source
• A bunch of stuff (20 KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 2 (28KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Project 3 (67KB pdf) LaTeX source
• Isometric graph paper (12KB PDF) obtained from www.printfreegraphpaper.com.
• Fancy frequency counter
• Some handy tools for alphabetic ciphers (23KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Some Vigenere'd text
• One time pad example (23KB PDF) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

2/12: Homework #1 due

Chapter 1: 2, 5, 13, 16, 19, 23, 25, 29ab, 62, 72ac, 74a

2/19: Homework #2 due

Chapter 1: 17, 35, 36, 40, 73
These extra problems

2/26: Homework #3 due

Chapter 2: 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 19, 23, 47, 48, 50, 53

3/4: Homework #4 due

Chapter 3: 6, 8, 11ab, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23, 29, 70

3/6: Exam I

 

3/11: Homework #5 due

Chapter 3: 35, 36, 39

3/25: Homework #6 due

Chapter 3: 46, 47, 51 ("first settlement" is the settlement before the surplus is given away), 56, 59, 66, 82
Chapter 5: 8, 12 (the "length" of a path is the number of edges used), 15, 19, 20

3/27: Project #1 due

 

4/1: Homework #7 due

Chapter 5: 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 34, 46, 55, 57

4/8: Homework #8 (not to be collected)

Chapter 5: 41, 42, 50, 64
Chapter 6: 2, 5, 29, 35, 37, 43, 47, 54
Chapter 8: 13, 14, 16, 17, 18

4/10: Exam II

 

4/18: Project #2 due

Bring to professor's office, Frey 327

4/22: Homework #9 due

Chapter 8: 27, 30, 33, 34, 38, 40, 45abc, 46a, 50, 62, 67, 68

4/29: Homework #10 due

These problems (34KB PDF)

5/6: Project #3 due

 

5/6: Homework #11 due

These problems (38KB PDF)

5/8: Final exam

Final exam, 1:30-3:30