Day 02: Heart of Mathematics

• Assignment (for next time): finish your stories (you may now peek at section 1.3, if you must!). Read Section 1.4, #2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 14 for discussion. This assignment will be handed in: write up solutions for each (or at least progress, if you can't solve them!). What did you try? What worked? Etc. Be verbose! This will be handed in on Wednesday, 9/7.

Your mission (should you have chosen to accept it):

• Read the chapter "Welcome" (pages ix-xii) and Section 1.1; start stories #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 from Section 1.1.
  You may read Section 1.2 (hints), but do not read 1.3 (solutions)!

• Have a look at the book, and choose THREE sections or topics (other than chapter 1) that you would like to cover. Write a paragraph explaining what interests you about each section. You may also include topics which are NOT in the book, but which interest you, and which you would like to investigate.

  Please hand in your paragraphs.

	Genie	Fountain	Trou	Dodge	Deal	Vegas	Dot
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1. Just do it.
2. Make mistakes and fail, but never give up.
3. Keep an open mind.
4. Explore the consequences of new ideas.
5. Seek the essential.
6. Understand the issue.
7. Understand simple things deeply.
8. Break a difficult problem into easier ones.
9. Examine issues from several points of view.
10. Look for patterns and similarities.

• Let's Make a Deal
• Dodgeball
• Dropping Trou