Week 1 | For Monday | Read the Thales, Commensurability, and Pythagorus material posted on the web. |
Week 2 | For Tuesday | Learn Eculid's Postulates and Common Notions Read Propositions 1-32 Learn the proofs of 1,2,9,10,11,12,16,22,23,27,29,32 |
For Wednesday | Finish Tuesday's assignment | |
For Thursday | Find and read Reading Sequence 7 in the web presentation of The Elements | |
For Friday | Notice that some of Book VI has been added to the Background List Read Book VI, Proposition 6 |
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Week 3 | For Tuesday | Read Chapter 1; pay particular attention to the vocabulary of Sec.1.3. |
For Wednesday | Sec.2.1: 1,7,9,19i,19ii,20,22 Be sure to read the instructions for Part B Problems. | |
For Thursday | Sec.2.1: 8,10,11,15,18,19iii,22,24 Sec.2.2: 4,6,9,11 Note: I will be asking you to turn in problems each week; the first problems will be due next Monday. |
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For Friday | Sec.2.2: 7,8,14,17,20 | |
For Monday | Read the material about the Taxicab Plane and work 5,10,12. Hand in form Sec.2.1: 10,11,24 Hand in from Sec.2.2: 10,14,17 |
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Week 4 | For Tuesday | Sec.2.3: 1,2,4,6,7(you may use calculus),8(show that the compositon of two injections is injective),9 |
For Wednesday | Sec.3.2: 6,7,9 | |
For Thursday | Sec.3.2: 5 | |
For Friday | Sec.3.3: 2,3 | |
For Monday | Sec.3.3: 6,7,9,11a,12,13,15,18,19 Hand in from Sec.3.2: 7(use a ruler) Hand in from Sec.3.3: 6,11a,15(look closely at the definition of ray),19 |
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Week 5 | For Tuesday | Sec.4.1: 1-4,6,8-10 |
For Wednesday | Sec.4.1: 11,13-16 | |
For Thursday | Sec.4.3: 1,2,3 | |
For Friday | Sec.4.4: 4,5,6 | |
Sec.4.4: 9,10,12,14,22,24 Hand in from Sec.4.3: 3 Hand in from Sec.4.4: 4,6,9,10 |
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Week 6 | Fall Break Week |   |
Week 7 | Tuesday | Test 1 |
For Thursday | Sec.5.3: 6,7,10,13,14 | |
For Monday | Sec.5.3: 15 Sec.6.1: 4,5,8,9 Sec.6.2: 1-10 and these look like fun. Hand-in (revised): from 5.3: #10 and 13; from 6.1: #8; from 6.2: #4 and 6 |
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Week 8 | For Tuesday | Sec.6.2: 14 (have this one ready for tomorrow) Sec.6.3: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10 (have #10 ready for tomorrow) |
For Wednesday | Sec.6.4: 2,3,7,8,9,11,12,13 | |
Week 9 | For Tuesday | Sec.6.5: 4,7,9,11 |
For Thursday | Sec.6.6: 1,2,3,4,7,8 Sec.7.1: 1,2,3,4,8,11,14 |
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For Tuesday | Hand-in: from 6.4: #3 and 9; from 6.6: #1; from 7.1: #11 | |
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Week 11 | For Thursday | Sec.9.3 Hand-out: Theorems and Problems |
Week 12 | For Tuesday | Sec.9.3: 1-4,6,12 |