MA 294 - Summer 2020 - Home Page

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(NEW!) Answer Key to Problems in Textbook

Homework Listing

Week 1

Mon July 6 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 8.2: 1,2
- 8.7: 11
- 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
Tue July 7 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 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
- Latin Squares in Experimental Design
- Latin Squares applied to Agrigculture (yes, agriculture!)
Wed July 8 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 13.5: 4
- 20.1: 2
- 20.2: 1-4
- Work on Extra Problems: p18-2,3,4,5;p19-7,11;p23-1,2,3,4;p24-12,13
Thu July 9 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 20.3: 1-5
- 20.4: 2-5
- 20.5: 1,2,4
- 20.6: 1,2,4
- 20.7: 1-6
- The problems from the text.
- Turn in #1
Week 2
Mon July 13 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 20.8: 1,3,4,5
- 20.10: 1-6,13,14,22
- 21.1: 1-5 (p. 281 and 283)
- The problems from the text.
- 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
- An interesting article Modular Arithmetic in the Marketplace on applications of permutations and modular arithmetic in commerce.
Tue July 14 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
Wed July 15 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- The questions we went over in class.
Thu July 16 2020
- Download exam 1.
- Turn in #2
- 21.2: 1,2,3
- 21.3 1 (just figure out the elements of the group), 2
- 21.4: 1,2
- 21.7: 4 (try), 14,16
- The problems from the text.

Week 3

Mon July 20 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- Answer Key from Exam 1
- The problems from the text.
- 22.1: 2,3
- 22.2: 2,3
- 22.3: 2,3
- 22.4: 1,4,5
- 22.5: 1-5
Tue July 21 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- Work on Extra Problems: p194-1;p195-2,7,8,9,12;p196-17;p197-28,29,33,37,38;p211-2,3,5;p212-6,10,13
Wed July 22 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- The problems from the text. (Some of these cover problems which will be assigned tomorrow.
- 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
Thu July 23 2020
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- Handout from Today's Lecture
- Homework questions discussed today
- 23.1: 1,2
- 23.2: 1,4
- 23.3: 1,3
- 24.1: 1,3
- Turn in #3
Week 4
Mon July 27 2020
- Answer Key for Turn in 3
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 24.2: 1,2,3
- 24.3: 1,2,3,4
- 24.4: 1-3
- The problems from the text.
Tue July 28 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 24.6: 1
- 24.5: 1
- 24.7: 1,5,9
- The problems from the text.
- See and Say Sequence (Wikipedia)
- See and Say Sequence (YouTube)
- See and Say Sequence program in different computer languages
Wed July 29 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- Extra Problems p.295 \#8 answer
- Fibonacci Spiral
- Triangular Numbers
- Why \(f_n/f_{n-1}\) converges to \(\phi\) [pages 29-36].
Thu July 30 2020
- Download exam 1.
- 25.1: 1,2,3
- 25.2: 1,2,3,5
- 25.3: 1
- 25.4: 1,2
- The problems from the text.
- Turn in #4
Week 5
Mon August 3 2020
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 25.5: 3,4
- 25.6: 1,3
- 25.7: 1-6,18
- The problems from the text.
Tue August 4 2020
- Answer Key for Turnin 4
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- 26.1: 1,2,3
- 26.2: 1,2,3
- The problems from the text.
- Generate All Partitions of an Integer
Wed August 5 2020
- 26.3: 1,2,3,4
- Handout from Today's Lecture
- The problems from the text.
- What is Graham's Number?
- How big is Graham's Number?
- Skewes Number (another big number!)
Thu August 6 2020
- 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
- The problems from the text.
- Turn in #5
Week 6
Mon August 10 2020
- Cyclotomic Polynomials and nonstandard dice
- Sicherman Dice
- Handout from Today's Lecture
Tue August 11 2020
- Turn in 5 Answer Key
- Course Evaluation Website
Wed August 12 2020
- 26.4.3, (let k=3) which also explains the author's hint.
Thu August 12 2020
- Download Final Exam