Baldwin's MATH 215 Home Page

Class meets in 306 Addams Hall  at  5-8  on Tuesday.  Call Number:  24907

Office hours M at 3, W at 4 or T at 10:30 or by appointment in 327 SEO.  (Subject to change)

Feel free to e-mail me at jbaldwin@uic.edu or phone to make an appointment to discuss any difficulties that arise.

Office:327SEO. 

Officephone:312-413-2149

e-mail:jbaldwin@uic.edu

Prerequisites; Grade of C or better in MATH 181 and approval of the department.

 

Course policies and description of main assignments are given in:

Course Syllabus (pdf)

ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly Reading Assignment: Quizzes on Reading are possible

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Weekly homework assignments are given below:

 

January 16  (pdf) due January 23  Logical Connectives

Solutions to similar problems  

Solution to trig/ meaning of or and exist problem  Solutions I.

January 23  (pdf) due January 30  Beginning proofs about the reals

January 30  (pdf) due February 6:  Proof by contradiction and trig again

February 6: due February 13:  pg 55: 14, 16, 17, 18

February 20; due February27 because of snow:  Basic Set Theory  and extension motivated by exam

February 27; due March 6 page 116: 4,7, 11 (decide if true or false, prove or give counterexample accordingly), 12

Partial Solutions – Feb 27

March 6: due March 13:

March 13:  page 118, 16, 18,  19  (Don’t be intimidated by 16.iv). Graph it and then answer the question precisely.

Solution to 119: 21.i)

Due Apr. 2:  pg 118-119: 20 i), iii), pg 182: 1, 2 (For 2, you will have to proceed as in 1) and then solve a system of linear equations).
Finally, explain in words the difference between f inverse and f with a right arrow over it.

Due April 10, page 183-184: 6,7, 9, 10 bonus if you do 14.

 

Some solutions to problems from Apr. 10

Due April 17

Due April 24

Due May 1

The first exam will be on February 20.

The second exam will be on March 20.  It is cumulative through chapter 11.1.

 

 

Auxiliary Materials

 

An Induction Proof

Understanding 2 quantifiers

Sample First MidTerm

 This is an additional item to the sample test; the first test gives you idea of  length.

Sample First MidTerm –additional question 

 

 This is an additional item to the sample test; the first test gives you idea of  length.

Supplement to first midterm WORK TO TURN IN IF NEEDED

 

Study Guide for Second Midterm

samplefinsol.pdf

Solutions to Study Guide for Second Midterm

 

Study Guide for Final

 

Solutions to Study Guide for Final

 

 

Practice Problems

 

Practice Problems suggested by Professor Marker

 

 

 

 

 

LINKS

 

Web Links for this course

 
Further course handouts will be posted, stay tuned.

Last revised: 15 January 2007 by J. Baldwin