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Updates relating to the final will appear in the near future here. Please
check this web-page periodically.

Office hours until the final: Wed. 3-4:30. You can email for other times,
or even ask questions over email.

27/4 - Old homeworks and assignments that have not been picked up are now
available at my office, and are no longer with the TA's.

26/4 - Since I have been asked often: the exam will contain 8 questions.
There can be a few true/false parts, just like we had in the midterm.
The general content-advice given for the midterm applies here:
"Practicing problems, from the assignments, from the book
or from any other reasonable source is a useful manner of preparation. Also
study definitions, concepts and statements of theorems. Short parts of
proofs of theorems may be asked, but definitely not long proofs."
A bit more specifically, and also like the midterm, the vast majority of
the test consists of problems which apply the theory, rather than theorems
and definitions in isolation. So problems are most important to practice,
do as many as you can. Knowledge from all 5 chapters is necessary to succeed
in the exam, although material which was tested in the midterm gets smaller
representation, unless it is represented indirectly, in combination with
later material. In contrast, a chapter that relies on the understanding of
concepts and results from earlier ones, is likely to be represented more
in the exam, as it indirectly represents earlier material as well.
Good luck with your studies.

26/4 - As mentioned in class, one or two book problems have had small
representation in the course, but you should know these results - at
least as general knowledge, do not worry about getting a difficult test
problem on them. The examples of this that come to mind are Problem 29 in
Section 1.6 (that was mentioned in part, and also in tutorial), and Problem
25, especially part (d), in Section 4.3 (that was mentioned in the last
class). I reiterate - do not take this as a message on specifics of the test.

Further solutions for the latest assignments are now available.

9/4 - Material for the final exam (based on 4th edition):
Ch. 1 - all;
Ch. 2 - all except: Sections 2.6, 2.7 and pp. 94 - top of 96 (an application
within Section 2.3).
Ch. 3 - all except: pp. 176 - middle of 179 (an application within Section 3.3).
Ch. 4 - all, and also the material related to the definition of the determinant
using permutations. In section 4.5, concentrate on the material as taught in class.
Ch. 5 - all except: Section 5.3 and pages 273-274 (applications to ODE systems
within Section 5.2).

Practice problems from the book or other sources. Here are a few
suggested problems for Section 5.4, given only since we have only had
a short hand-in assignment for it - but all problems from any reasonable
source can be used for practice.
Extra problems for Section 5.4 - 6d, 9 & 10 in relation to 6d,
13,17,23,26,36,37,41 (same for the 3rd edition).

15/2 - The midterm will take place on Thursday, February 26,
at 1 p.m. in class, and continue throughout part of the tutorial
in RW117. As described in class, the material covered is all of
Chapter 1, and sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 of Chapter 2 of the textbook
(4th edition, Friedberg, Insel and Spence). In Section 2.3 the
applications on pages 94-96 (4th edition) will not be covered in
the midterm. Practicing problems, from the assignments, from the book
or from any other reasonable source is a useful manner of preparation. Also
study definitions, concepts and statements of theorems. Short parts of
proofs of theorems may be asked, but definitely not long proofs.
16/1 - The office hours have changed to Wed. 3-4, 5-5:30.

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Assignment 11