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Homework Assignments

Week 1

• Tue January 16 2024
  • Class Starts 1/18
• Thu January 18 2024
  • 8.2: 1,2
  • 8.7: 11
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 2

• Tue January 23 2024
  • 13.1: 1,3
  • 13.2: 3
  • Work on Extra Problems: p.44-1,2,5; p.45-8; p.50-1,2,8,9;p.51-10,14; p.52-15(a); p.54-1,11
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu January 25 2024
  • 13.2: 1-4
  • 13.3: 1-8 (pages 147 and 149)
  • Work on Extra Problems: 1-12,22
  • Article on RSA
  • A site with nice Python examples demonstrating RSA
  • Peter Shor's Algorithm to Factor Using a Quantum Computer
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 3

• Tue January 30 2024
  • 13.5: 4
  • 20.1: 2
  • 20.2: 1-4
  • Latin Squares in Experimental Design
  • Latin Squares applied toAgrigculture (yes, agriculture!)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu February 1 2024
  • 20.3: 1-5
  • 20.4: 2-5
  • 20.5: 1,2,4
  • Work on Extra Problems:p18-2,3,4,5;p19-7,11;p24-1,2,3,4;p24-12,13
  • Turn in #1 (Due Tuesday 2/6/24)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 4

• Tue February 6 2024
  • 20.6: 1,2,4
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu February 8 2024
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 5

• Tue February 13 2024
  • snow day!
• Thu February 15 2024
  • Exam 1

  Week 6

• Tue February 20 2024
  • 20.7: 1-6
  • 20.8: 1,3,4,5
  • 20.10: 1-6,13,14,22
  • 21.1: 1-5 (p. 281 and 283)
  • Work on Extra Problems: p78 (Reading Questions)-2,4;p.78 Exercises-1,2;p.79-5,6,11,12,17,18,20
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu February 22 2024
  • An interesting article Modular Arithmetic in the Marketplace on applications of permutations and modular arithmetic in commerce.
  • Turn in #2 (Due Tuesday 2/28)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 7

• Tue February 27 2024
  • Work on Extra Problems: p66-1,2;p.67-10,23;p68-27,30(a);p73-1,2,3(a,b);p74-11,12;p113-3,4;p114-16;p115-34,35 15 (Hint: Use 30 on p68);p74-21,23;p115-36
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu February 29 2024
  • 21.2: 1,2,3
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 8

• Tue March 5 2024
  • 21.3 1 (just figure out the elements of the group), 2
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu March 7 2024
  • 21.4: 1,2
  • 21.7: 4 (try), 14,16
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 9

• Tue March 12 2024
  • Spring Break
• Thu March 14 2024
  • Spring Break

  Week 10

• Tue March 19 2024
  • 22.1: 2,3
  • 22.2: 2,3
  • 22.3: 2,3
  • 22.4: 1,4,5
  • 22.5: 1-5
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu March 21 2024
  • 22.7: 1,3,4,6
  • 22.8: 1,2,3
  • 22.9: 1-4,6,7,8,10,12,13,15,18,19,20
  • 23.1: 1,2
  • 23.2: 1,4
  • 23.3: 1,3
  • Turn in #3 (Due Tuesday 3/26/23)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 11

• Tue March 26 2024
  • Exam 2 on Thursday
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu March 28 2024
  • Exam 2

  Week 12

• Tue April 2 2024
  • 24.1: 1,3
  • 24.2: 1,2,3
  • 24.3: 1,2,3,4
  • 24.4: 1-3
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu April 4 2024
  • Turn in 4 (Due Tuesday 4/10)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 13

• Tue April 9 2024
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu April 11 2024
  • 24.6: 1
  • 24.5: 1
  • 24.7: 1,5,9
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 14

• Tue April 16 2024
  • 25.1: 1,2,3
  • 25.2: 1,2,3,5
  • 25.3: 1
  • 25.4: 1,2
  • Fibonacci Spiral
  • Triangular Numbers
  • Golden Mean
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu April 18 2024
  • Turn in 5 (Due Thursday 4/25)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 15

• Tue April 23 2024
  • 25.6: 1,3
  • 25.7: 1-6,18
  • 26.1: 1,2,3
  • 26.2: 1,2,3
  • 26.3: 1,2,3,4
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • Generate All Partitions of an Integer
• Thu April 25 2024
  • 26.4: 1 (iii),2,3 [just do the first p(n)]
  • 26.5: 1
  • 26.6: 1
  • 26.7: 2,3
  • Handout from Today's Lecture

  Week 16

• Tue April 30 2024
  • Last Class
  • Course Evaluation Website - (bu.edu/courseeval/)
  • Handout from Today's Lecture