Day 02 in Mat310

Today:

• Announcements:
  • Any chance we can start a little earlier? 4:40? 4:30?
  • The final exam date was wrong on the assignment sheet: it's 5/5 (Thursday, of course), not 5/4.

• Chapter 1:
  • chapter 1 summary

  • Problems from section 1.1:
    • #1b and d (Attributed to Euler), p. 15; (c attributed to Nicomachus)
    • "All men are bald."
    • Checker board induction (tiling in trominoes)
    • Backwards finite induction

• Section 2.1:
  • section 2.1 summary

  • Problems from section 2.1:
    • Comment: check out #7, p. 20; this form of the division algorithm will prove useful down the road.
    • #3a, p. 19
    • #4, p. 20
    • #10, p. 20

• Section 2.2:
  • section 2.2 summary

  • Problems from section 2.2:
    • Establish parts of the first theorem
    • #2c, p. 25
    • #4c, p. 25