Day 05: Heart of Mathematics
Announcements:
"Favorite section" handouts due next time. No new assignment today.
Our mission today:
consider solutions of problems of section 1.4: pp. 25-30, #2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 14
Section 2.1, "Number Contemplation":
A reading from Hardy's
A Mathematician's Apology
Are all counting numbers (natural numbers) interesting?
What is "the pidgeonhole principle"? What is it good for?
To speak algebraically: . Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. C. is x plus 1-ecrable.
Edgar Allan Poe
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