Foundations of Mathematics
MAT 2243 Section 001
Spring, 2002
Prof. J. Iovino
A course outline and a general description of the policies of the course
is available here
News
May 3
There is a (fairly obvious) typo on the last question of the problem set.
The inequality should be ≤ instead of <.
Otherwise the claim won't be true for n=1.
April 30
Due to a committee meeting, I won't be in the office Wednesday morning.
April 15
We will have a 10-minute quiz on Wednesday, April 17.
The material will be inequalities (second half of Section 2.3).
March 27
The take-home test will be due on Wednesday, April 1, by 3:30pm.
March 6
We will have a 15-minute quiz on Wednesday, March 20.
The material will be Section 2.2.
February 27
We will have a 15-minute quiz on Monday, February 27.
February 18
Our first test will be on Wednesday February 18.
It will include all the material covered until last week (inclusive).
You should re-do all the homework exercises and the examples presented in class.
Of the additional exercises, I suggest to work on the following:
5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 19, 21, 25, 27, 31, 45.
January 23
Initially, the university bookstore did not have enough copies of the textbook;
more copies are to arrive on January 28. For this reason, I have handed out
photocopies of Sections 1.1 and 1.2, and Homework 1 has been postponed till Monday,
January 28.
Homework
Homework 1
Prepare for 1/23: Exercise 3, p. 19.
Hand-in on 1/23: Exercises 2, 4, p. 19.
Homework 2
Hand-in on 1/28: Exercise 1, p. 26
(all parts, except (a), (b), and (e), which were done in class).
Homework 3
Hand-in on 2/4: Exercise 1, p. 31, parts (h)-(l).
Homework 4
Hand-in on 2/11: Exercise 2, p. 37, parts (l)-(q).
Homework 5
Prepare for 2/13. Exrecises 1(g), 1(h), p. 46.
Study pages 1-45 very carefully.
There is were the subject of the course (proofs) begins.
Homework 6
Prepare for 2/27: Exercises 4(e), 5(a), p. 46.
Hand-in on 3/4: Exercise 5(b), p. 46.
Homework 7
Prove the dual version of Theorem 2.2.7
(i.e., the version that results from replacing the
union by an intersection and vice-versa).
Exercise 4(b), p.52.
Homework 8
Prepare for 3/20: Part 2 of Theorem 2.3.6, p. 55, and Exercises 7, 2, and 6, p. 59.
Homework 9
Prepare for 4/1: Exercise 9, parts (b), (h), (i), (j), (l), p.59.
Homework 10
Hand-in on 4/15: Exercises 14, 15, p. 60.
Homework 11
Prepare for 4/24: Exercises 2(c), 2(e), 5, 7(c), p. 67.
