Recent items

• Homework 9 -- for those who missed the class.
• Homework 6 -- due Friday after the break.
  Homework 1 for your studies.
  Solution to Homework 1
  Solution to Homework 3
• Numberplay: Phi -- The Magic and the Myth -- Interesting article and video in the recent issue of "The New York Times".
• Our Syllabus
• Fall semester important dates.
• Cornell method for taking notes. See also the source of a graph paper.
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive -- a place to visit in search for history and people of math.
• The power of mathematics -- an interesting article by J. Conway
• Proofs of the Pythagorean theorem

Classes

week 1

[22 aug]

Lecture 0: Organizational meeting.
Lecture 1: Introduction.
Lecture 2: Propositional logic.

week 2

[29 aug]

Lecture 3: Propositional logic (de Moivre etc).
Lecture 4: Set theory.
Lecture 5: More on set theory.

week 3

[5 sep]

Lecture 6: Predicate logic
Lecture 7: Union and intersection of infinte family of sets.

week 4

[12 sep]

Lecture 8: Review
Check index entries for Desargues, Pascal, Pappus in "What is Mathematics".
You may also explore MathWorld starting with Desargues' Theorem