MAT246, Winter 2011


MAT246 - Winter 2011
Faculty: Vitali Kapovitch Office: HU 1023 Telephone: (416)-978-6786 email: vtk@math.toronto.edu Office Hours : Th 12-2pm and by appointment "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever". -- Chinese Proverb	Teaching Assistant : Jeremy Voltz Office: BA6135 Telephone: 416-978-4794 email: jeremy.voltz@utoronto.ca


General Info

Course homepage www.math.toronto.edu/vtk/246Winter2011
The Text for this course:

"What is Mathematics" by Courant, Robbins and Stewart

Course Syllabus (approximate):

"What is Mathematics": Chapter 1:§2, Supplement to Chapter I: § 1-4, Chapter II: §1, 2, 4-6, Chapter III: Part I
Supplemental material from lectures.

Class times:

Lecture M 3-4 in LM 161, F 3-4 in UC 163
Tutorial W 3-4 in UC 163

The Course Grade will be calculated as follows:

Homework- 20%
Term Test - 30%
Final Exam - 50%

Homework assignments will be posted every Friday. It will be due the following Friday at the lecture.
NO late homework will be accepted.
Important: There will be no make up midterms! If you have a valid reason to miss the term test, the corresponding portion of the Final exam will count as your term test grade.

Exam dates:

Term test : Wednesday, March 9, 3:10-4pm in UC 163.
Final Exam: Thursday, April 21, 9-12am in WI 1016

Announcements

Here are solutions to the practice tests

Final exam review will take place on Friday, April 15, 3-5pm in BA 1200.
The Final will cover all the material covered in the course thus far. That includes: Induction, prime factorization, modular arithmetic, Fermat's Theorem, Euler's theorem, Wilson's theorem, RSA encryption, Euclidean algorithm and its applications, irrational numbers, algebraic numbers, rational numbers and periodicity of decimal expressions, complex numbers, Cardinality Theory, Shroeder-Berenstein Theorem, Constructable numbers, impossibility of trisecting an angle, doubling a cube and squaring a circle.
Rules for the test: No aids allowed. No calculators! This means that you may need to memorize some formulas such as the formula for cos(3θ) and for sin and cos of basic angles.
When writing the test, unlesss specifically instructed otherwise, you can quote without a proof results proved in class. You may not quote results from homework without a proof.
Here are a couple of practice exams for the Final. I will post solutions to them some time next week.

Here are the solutions to homework 10.
Here are the solutions to selected problems from homework 9.
Here are the solutions to selected problems from homework 8.
Here are the solutions to selected problems from homework 7.

Term test results are in. You can access your scores on Blackboard. The high score was 50 (out of 50) and the median was 34. Here are the letter grade cuttoffs:

Score	Letter grade
40-50	A
35-39	B
30-34	C
25-29	D
1-24	F

Here are the solutions to the term test.
Here are Lecture notes from the MAT246 course taught by professor Rosenthal in 2007. We are not following them exactly but a lot of material is very similar and you might find them helpful.
Starting Wednesday, January 26 the class will meet in the following rooms

M 3-4 in LM 161
WF 3-4 in UC 163

Exams

Term Test

Final Exam


Homework Assignments

HW 1	HW 2
HW 3	HW 4
HW 5	HW 6
HW 7	HW 8
HW 9	HW 10