The homework will be posted here.
Homework 1, due Thursday, October 4 (this is shorter than usual as this is the first week of class)
Homework 2, due Thursday, October 11:
Textbook (Four Pillars): 1.3.6, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3
Homework 3, due Thursday, October 18:
Textbook: 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.5.2, 2.6.2
Reading:
Read up through, but not including, “The theory of area” here: http://www.science.unitn.it/~fontanar/downloads/Hartshorne.pdf
Read the very first paragraph (“According…decay”) here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/0004012.pdf
Brief biographical information about the authors: both are prominent mathematicians
Homework 4, due Thursday, October 25
Textbook: 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.3.1
Homework 5, due Thursday, November 1
Textbook: 3.5.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.7.4
Reading: Skim this geometry exercise book from Babylonian times; have a look at the kind of questions students were asked to solve:
Homework 6, due Thursday, November 15
Textbook: 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.3.2, 5.4.1
Homework 7, due Tuesday, November 20
Textbook: 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3
Homework 8, due Thursday, December 6
Textbook: 8.1.1, 8.4.3, 8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.3, 8.6.5, 5.7.1, 5.7.2, 5.5.3
Also: write i) the equation for the circle with center (3,0) and radius 1, and ii) the equation for the vertical line through 2, in the format we did in class, ie in the format of equation (***) in section 8.3 of the textbook.