MAT 360

Syllabus and Homeworks

There will be weekly homeworks which are to be written on a piece of paper (with your name, section and ID number) and handed to your instructor on due date. You must write not only the answers but also your reasoning and explanation, which must be written clearly enough so that the grader should be able to follow your reasoning. Answers without explanation will get only parital credit.

The following is a tentative syllabus, which is subject to change.

Week	Dates	Notes	Topics	HW	Due date
1	8/24 - 8/28		1-8, 13-16, 21-27, 34-40	HW 1	9/2
2	8/31 - 9/4		31-33, 39-50	Problems 89, 91, 95, 101, 102 (a line is called equidistant from points A, B if the distance from this line to point A is equal to the distance to point B)	9/9
3	9/7 - 9/11	9/7, 9/8: no classes (Labor Day)	51-60	HW 3	9/16
4	9/14 - 9/18		70-87, 90-93	HW 4	9/23
5	9/21 - 9/25		94-98, 61-67	184, 194, 121, 134 (hint: see section 68), 202, 204. 'Construct' means 'construct using straightedge and compass'.	~~9/30~~ 10/5
6	9/28 - 10/2		103-123	none
7	10/5 - 10/9			230, 237, 239, 247, 255, 261, 270, 283	10/12 (Monday)
8	10/12 - 10/16	10/14: Midterm
9	10/19 - 10/23		156--162, 170--171, 184--186	HW 7	10/28
10	10/26 - 10/30		Lecture notes on isometries (by Oleg Viro)
11	11/2 - 11/6		Lecture notes on isometries	HW 8	11/11
12	11/9 - 11/13		Affine and projective geometry	HW 9	11/18
13	11/16 - 11/20		Affine and projective geometry
14	11/23 - 11/27	11/25-11/29: Thanskgiving break	Affine and projective geometry completed	HW 10: complete the proof of Pappus theorem discussed in class	11/30
15	11/30 - 12/4		Non-Euclidean geometry
	12/8	Final Exam