Dror Bar-Natan: Classes: 2002-03: FEEDBACK

Math 157 - Analysis I

Agenda: Understand calculus and its rigorous foundations.

Instructor: Dror Bar-Natan, drorbn@math.toronto.edu, Sidney Smith 5016G, 416-946-5438. Office hour: Tuesdays 3-4.

Classes: Tuesdays 10-11 and Thursdays 9-11 at University College 140.

Tutorials: Mondays at 2-4, in three groups divided by the last non-zero digit of your student number:

digit tutor place Hung, Ivanescu, Ahsan
1-3 Muhammad Ahsan, ahsan@math.toronto.edu, SS 4052, 8-3484 UC 144
4-6 Ching-Nam Hung, cnhung@math.toronto.edu, SS 4052, 8-3484 UC 244
7-9 Cristian Ivanescu, cristian@math.toronto.edu, SS 6027, 8-2095 UC A101


Announcements

Course Calendar

# Week of ...  
Fall Semester:
1 September 9 First week of classes - no tutorials!
Handout: About This Class
Handout: The 13 Postulates
Homework Assignment 1 (due date postponed to September 24th at 2PM because of the missing texts).
My Partial Solution of Homework Assignment 1 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 1.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2 September 16 Homework Assignment 2 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 2.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3 September 23 Handout: Visualization
Homework Assignment 3 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 3.
We took our Class Photo this week!
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
4 September 30 Homework Assignment 4 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 4.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
5 October 7 Homework Assignment 5 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 5.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
6 October 14 Monday is Thanksgiving.
Friday October 18 is the last date to drop down to Math 133 or Math 135.
Homework Assignment 6
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7 October 21 Sample Term Exam 1
Monday: Term Exam 1 took place in the tutorials. See the Solution of Term Exam 1.
Homework Assignment 7 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 7.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Friday October 25 is the last date to drop down to Math 137.
8 October 28 Homework Assignment 8 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 8.
HW8: Solutions of Just for Fun Problem (by Andrew Whitehead, Eric DeGiuli and Wang (Neo) Ying).
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 November 4 Homework Assignment 9 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 9.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 November 11 Homework Assignment 10
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
11 November 18 Handout: A Little on Convexity
Homework Assignment 11 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 11.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
12 November 25 Homework Assignment 12
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
13 December 2 About the Second Term Exam
Monday: Term Exam 2 took place in the tutorials. See the Solution of Term Exam 2.
Handout: Integration
Homework Assignment 12a
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Winter Semester:
14 January 6 No tutorials this week!
Handout: Welcome Back!
Homework Assignment 14 and Travis Li's Solution of Homework Assignment 14.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
15 January 13 Homework Assignment 15 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 15.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
16 January 20 Homework Assignment 16 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 16.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
17 January 27 Homework Assignment 17 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 17.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
18 February 3 Homework Assignment 18
Handout: π is Irrational
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
19 February 10 Monday: Term Exam 3 took place in the tutorials. See the Solution of Term Exam 3.
Homework Assignment 19 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 19.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sunday February the 16th: Last day to drop this course!
Reading February 17  
20 February 24 Homework Assignment 20 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 20.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
21 March 3 Homework Assignment 21 and Wang Ying's Solution of Homework Assignment 21.
HW21: Solution of Just for Fun Problem (by Norm Townsend).
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6
22 March 10 Homework Assignment 22 and Eric DeGiuli's Solution of Homework Assignment 22.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Handout: Series
23 March 17 This week's office hours are on Thursday 2-3PM and Friday 3-4PM.
Homework Assignment 23
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
24 March 24 Monday: Term Exam 4 took place in the tutorials. See the Solution of Term Exam 4.
Homework Assignment 24 and Sacha Kapoor's Solution of Homework Assignment 24.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5
25 March 31 Web-only handout: What Went Wrong with Term Exam 4?
Homework Assignment 25 and Sacha Kapoor's Solution of Homework Assignment 25.
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5
26 April 7 No homework assignment this week!
Class notes for this week: 1 2 3 4 5
Study April 14 Sample Final Exam
Study April 21 On Thursday April 24 and Friday April 25 I will hold extended office hours at the math aid center (SS 1071) from 3PM until 6PM or until the last student drops, whichever is the later. All graded homework assignments and term exams will be available there. Also, bring your own CD-R and burn a complete copy of this web page on it!
Final April 28 Monday: Final Exam, 9-12 at the Ramsay Wright Zoology Labs. Students with last names beginning A-Mak at RW 110 and Mat-Z at RW 117. See the Solution of the Final Exam.

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September 24, 2002

"I loved MAT 157. It was an interesting and elightening class. It's too bad that the professor had to keep going and bringing up calculus, it really put a damper on learning if people could outrun lions, or how a six-legged roach could move when pinned down."

-- A Student.