Number Theory
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Week of Nov 20 - End of Term, 2000
Assignments Made on:

Monday (Nov 20) Study: 9.1, 9.4 Do:

Monday (Nov 27) Study: 9.4 Do:

Wednesday (Nov 29) Study: 9.4, 9.5 Do:

Week of Nov 13 - 17, 2000
(Due by Monday, Nov 27)
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Monday Study: 7.2, 7.3 Do: pp 235--238: 11, 22, 23, 24 p249: 30cd, 37

Wednesday Study: 7.4 Do: pp 256--257: 10, 30, 31

Friday Study: 9.1 Do: none

Week of Nov 6 - 10, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Nov 15)
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Monday Study: 6.2 Do: p 213: 12, 13, 14 Reminder: Math 25 exam will go out on Wednesday, November 8 to be turned in on Friday, November 10.

Wednesday Study: 6.2 Do: Take-home exam

Friday Study: 7.1 Do: none

Week of Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Nov 8)
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Monday Study: 4.5, 8.2 Do: p 168 9a, 10a pp 278 - 279: 2, 8, 15, 16 Reminder: Math 25 exam next week! The exam will go out on Wednesday, November 8 to be turned in on Friday, November 10.

Wednesday Study: 6.3 Do: pp218 - 219: 6, 17

Friday Study: 8.4 Do: TBA

Week of Oct 23 - 27, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Nov 1)
Assignments Made on:

Monday Study: 6.1 Do: pp 203 -- 204: 7, 11, 43 On #7, you should derive this starting from Wilson's theorem

Wednesday Study: 8.1 Do: none

Thursday (x-hour) Study: 8.1 Do: p267: 6, 8

Week of Oct 16 - 20, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Oct 25)
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Monday Study: 4.6 Do: p 172: 2b The fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing will be on July 20, 2019. What day of the week will that be?

Wednesday Study: 5.2, 5.3 Do: TBA

Friday Study: 5.5 Do: pp 195: 14, 15ab, 17, 18

Week of Oct 9 - 13, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Oct 18)
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Monday Study: 4.1 Do: pp 135-137: 5, 7c, 19, 28c

Wednesday Study: 4.2 Do: pp 141 - 143: 1f, 5, 15, 18

Friday Study: 4.3 Do: p 150: 12

Week of Oct 2 - 6, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Oct 11)
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Monday Study: 3.4 Do: p 104: 9, 10, 14, 16a ([x] is defined on p33)

Wednesday Study: 3.6 Do: pp 123-124: 5, 9

Friday Study: 3.6 Do: none

Week of Sept 25 - 29, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Oct 4)
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Monday Study: 1.3, 3.1 Hand In: p 30: 32 // p77: 13,20 Not to hand in: p34: 6, 8 // p37: 53

Wednesday Study: 3.2 Do: p84: 8, 14

Friday Study: 3.3 Do: p93 1cd, plus the following problem (not necessarily related to the section in the text) Suppose we take several copies of a regular polygon and try to fit them evenly about a common vertex. Prove that the only possibilities are six equilateral triangles, four squares, and three hexagons.

Week of Sept 18 - 22, 2000
(Due Wednesday, Sept 27)
Assignments Made on:

Monday No classes yet

Wednesday Study: 1.1 Do: pp 14 - 15: 1,8

Friday Study: 1.2 Do: pp 22 - 24: 5, 14, 24, 34, plus the following problem: Blue Eyes and Logic On an island live seventeen natives all of whom have blue eyes, and who worship the sun as god. They are capable of perfect logic, and live by the two rules: No native reveals the color of a person's eyes to that person. If a native learns that their eyes are blue, they must jump off a cliff at 11:59:59 pm of the day they discover this fact. A missionary comes to the island with the intent to convert the natives to the ``true faith'', but after months of effort fails to persuade even a single native. Discouraged, the missionary leaves, but just as he departs he tells the natives (all of whom have gathered to see him off) that ``at least one of you has blue eyes''. Describe what happens over the course of the next year. The far more interesting question is what (if anything) did the missionary tell the natives that they didn't already know?

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