Josh Laison
Math 251: Foundations of Advanced Mathematics


                               (Dom, Ryan, Garrett, Kali, Wesley, Jess, Sarah, Emily, Dillon, Jessica, Mark, Mathew, Brett, Kevin, Colin)
Course Procedures

LaTex Resources:
To install WinEdt on your personal computer, first download MikTex (the "small MikTex installer" should be fine), and then download WinEdt (version 5.3 is the one on the lab machines).
A sample LaTex document written by me. This should have examples of most things that you'd like to know how to do.
The Not-So-Short Introduction to LaTeX
A List of LaTex resources
A List of Tex resources

Course calendar:
Monday Wednesday Friday
Week 1 Jan 14: First day of class. Jan 16: Reading: Chapter 0, Sections 1.1-1.3 Jan 18: Introduction to LaTeX
Week 2 Jan 21: MLK day, no class. Jan 23: Reading: Sections 1.4-1.6 Jan 25: Reading: Sections 1.7-1.8
Week 3 Jan 28: Reading: Sections 1.9-1.11
Written #1: Chapter 1 Problems 3, 5
Jan 30: Reading: Sections 1.12-1.15 Feb 1: No assignments.
Week 4 Feb 4: No reading.
Individual #1
Feb 6: No assignments. Feb 8: Reading: Sections 2.1-2.2
Week 5 Feb 11: Reading: Section 2.3
Written #2
Feb 13: Oral Problems: 2.3.8, Chapter 2: 2,3 Feb 15: No assignments.
Week 6 Feb 18: Reading: Section 2.4
Individual #2
Feb 20: Reading: Sections 2.5-2.6 Feb 22: Reading: Sections 3.1-3.2
Week 7 Feb 25: No reading.
Written #3: Theorems 2.5.4, 2.5.5.
Feb 27: Reading: Section 3.3 Feb 29: Reading: Section 4.1 (no quiz)
Week 8 Mar 3: No assignments. Mar 5: No assignments. Mar 7: Reading: Section 4.2 through Example 4.2.10
Week 9 Mar 10: Reading: The rest of Section 4.2
Individual #3
Mar 12: Reading: Section 4.3 through 4.3.7
Complete Exercises 4.2.21 and 4.3.5.
Oral Problem: 4.2.15 and its converse
Mar 14: Reading: The rest of Section 4.3.
Complete Exercise 4.3.19.
Week 10 Mar 17: No assignments. Mar 19: Reading: Section 4.4 through 4.4.6.
Complete Exercise 4.4.5.
Written #4: Theorem 4.2.22, Chapter 4 Problem 12
Mar 21: No assignments.
Week 11 Mar 31: No assignments.
Apr 2: No reading.
Individual #4
Apr 4: Reading: Section 5.1.
Complete Exercise 5.1.10.
Week 12 Apr 7: Reading: Section 5.2.
Complete Exercise 5.2.2.
Apr 9: Reading: Section 5.3
Complete Exercises 5.3.5 and 5.3.8.
Apr 11: Reading: Section 5.5 through 5.5.16.
Complete Exercise 5.5.14.
Written #5: Theorem 4.4.16, Theorem 5.2.7.
Week 13 Apr 14: Reading: Section 5.5 through 5.5.22, Section 8.5 through 8.5.10.
Complete Exercise 8.5.4.
Apr 16: SSRD, no class Apr 18: No reading.
Individual #5
Week 14 Apr 21: Reading: Sections 6.1 and 6.2.
Complete Theorem 6.2.6.
Apr 23: Reading: Sections 6.3 and 6.4
Complete Exercise 6.3.3.
Apr 25: Reading: Sections 6.5 and 6.6
Complete Exercise 6.6.3.
Written #6: Theorem 6.2.16, Theorem 6.4.1, Corollary 6.4.2.
Week 15 Apr 28: Last day of class! No assignments.
All revisions due by Sat. May 3, 5:00 PM.