November Lectures

Week of November 1-5

Nov 1: Double counting (cont).
Special event: movie "n is a number" (substitute class of December 6).
Nov 3: Three famous theorems in finite sets. [A1 in/A2 out]

Week of November 8-12

Nov 8: Three famous theorems in finite sets (cont). Deadline to decide project topic.
Nov 10: Student presentations: (1) How to guard a museum, and (2) Five-coloring plane graphs.

Week of November 15-19

Nov 15: Student presentations: (3) Tiling rectangles, and (4) Probability makes counting (sometimes) easy.
Nov 17: Student presentations: (5) On sets, functions and the continuum hypothesis, and (6) The fundamental theorem of algebra.

Week of November 22-26

Nov 22: Student presentations: (7) A theorem of Polya on polynomials, and (8) Cotangent and the Herglotz trick.
Nov 24: Student presentations: (9) Representing numbers as sums of two squares, and (10) Quadratic reciprocity.

Week of November 29 - December 3

Nov 29: Shuffling cards.
Dec 1: Shuffling cards (cont). Revision of course, and course evaluations. [A2 in]

Week of December 6

To October lectures.