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(NEW!) Answer Key to Problems in Textbook

Homework Listing

Week 1

• Tue July 6 2021
  • 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
• Wed July 7 2021
  • 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!)
  • What is Graham's Number?
  • How big is Graham's Number?
  • Skewes Number (another big number!)
• Thu July 8 2021
  • 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
• Fri July 9 2021
  • 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 12 2021
  • 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 13 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • Work on Extra Problems: p67,3;p.67-6,7,8,9,10,18,25;p68-31,33;p73-5;p74-15 (Hint: Use 30 on p68);p74-21,23;p115-36
• Wed July 14 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Thu July 15 2021
  • Login to Gradescope to take Exam 1.
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • 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 19 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • 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 20 2021
  • 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 21 2021
  • 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 22 2021
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  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • 23.1: 1,2
  • 23.2: 1,4
  • 23.3: 1,3
  • 24.1: 1,3
  • 24.2: 1,2,3
  • 24.3: 1,2,3,4
  • 24.4: 1-3
  • The problems from the text.
  • Turn in #3

  Week 4

• Mon July 26 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Tue July 27 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • 24.6: 1
  • 24.5: 1
  • 24.7: 1,5,9
  • The problems from the text.
  • Fibonacci Spiral
  • Triangular Numbers
  • Golden Mean
• Wed July 28 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • No class tomorrow, the exam will be open at 6AM tomorrow.
• Thu July 29 2021
  • Login to Gradescope to take 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 2 2021
  • 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 3 2021
  • 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 4 2021
  • 26.3: 1,2,3,4
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
  • The problems from the text.
• Thu August 5 2021
  • 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 9 2021
  • Handout from Today's Lecture
• Tue August 10 2021
  • Cyclotomic Polynomials and nonstandard dice
  • Sicherman Dice
• Wed August 11 2021
  • Turn in 5 Answer Key
  • Final Exam Topics: congruences, groups (including subgroups and cosets), basic properties of rings, e.g. fields and domains and units, check matrices for detecting/correcting errors, generating functions, and partitions
  • Note: There will be no questions about graphs, graph automorphisms, 'color' problems, cyclic codes
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