WORK SCHEDULE FOR Math 2300 -- Fall 2015

• ♥ First day of class is Monday, August 24. Class meets in P-101.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • The Course Description
  • Section 1.1: Variables
  • Section 1.2: The Language of Sets
  • Section 1.3: The Language of Relations and Functions
  • Scan through the rest of this document (the course schedule).
  
  
• Homework Assignments: Be familiar with the information about homework in the Course Description. The homework assignments themselves are located on this assignment page, which includes problem numbers, assignment dates, and due dates. Check the assignment page often - at least once or twice each week. Get started doing homework problems NOW, work on them continuously until the end of the semester, and give them to me at the appropriate times, prepared according to the directions. This will be your responsibility, regardless of how many reminders I happen to give you.
  
  
• Lecture Topics:
  • Chapter One - Speaking Mathematically

• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 2.1: Logical Form and Logical Equivalence
  • Section 2.2: Conditional Statements
  
  

• ♥ No class on Monday, September 7 - Labor Day
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 2.3: Valid and Invalid Arguments
  • Section 3.1: Predicates and Quantified Statements I
  
  
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  • Section 3.2: Predicates and Quantified Statements II
  
  
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  • Section 3.3: Statements with Multiple Quantifiers
  • Section 3.4: Arguments with Quantified Statements
  
  
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  • Section 4.1: Direct Proof and Counterexample I: Introduction
  • Section 4.2: Direct Proof and Counterexample II: Rational Numbers
  • Section 4.3: Direct Proof and Counterexample III: Divisibility
  
  
• Lecture Topics:
  • Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3

• Quiz #1: Monday, October 5, on sections 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.3, and 3.1-3.4
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 4.4: Direct Proof and Counterexample IV: Division into Cases and the Quotient-Remainder Theorem
  
  
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• ♥ No class on Tuesday, October 13 - Non-instructional Day
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 4.6: Indirect Argument: Contradiction and Contraposition
  • Section 5.1: Sequences
  
  
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  • Section 5.2: Mathematical Induction I
  
  
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  • Section 5.3: Mathematical Induction II
  • Section 5.4: Strong Mathematical Induction and the Well-Ordering Principle
  
  
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  • Section 5.6: Defining Sequences Recursively
  • Section 5.7: Solving Recurrence Relations by Iteration
  
  
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• ♥ No class on Wednesday, November 11 - Veteran's Day
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 5.8: Second-Order Linear Homogeneous Recurrence Relations with Constant Coefficients
  • Section 5.9: General Recursive Definitions and Structural Induction
  
  
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• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 6.1: Set Theory: Definitions and the Element Method of Proof
  • Section 6.2: Properties of Sets
  
  
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• Quiz #2: Monday, November 16, on sections 4.1-4.4, 4.6, and 5.1-5.4

• ♥ No class on Thursday-Friday, November 26-27 - Thanksgiving
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 6.3: Disproofs, Algebraic Proofs, and Boolean Algebras
  • Section 8.1: Relations on Sets
  
  
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  • Section 8.2: Reflexivity, Symmetry, and Transitivity
  • Section 8.3: Equivalence Relations
  
  
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• ♥ No class on Friday, December 11 - Reading Day
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Section 9.4: The Pigeonhole Principle
  
  
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