MAT 331: Mathematical Problem Solving with Computers

Fall 2008 - Prof. Moira Chas

Homework and projects (under construction)

Problem set 1 (due Sept 15th)
Problem set 2: Exercise 5 (due Sept 19th)

Problem set 3: Exercises 6, 7, 8 (due Sept 26th). Data is here
Problem set 4 : Execises 9, 10, 11 (due Oct 3rd), (10 is Extra Credit)
Project 1 (due Oct 14rd). Here is the data. Remember you need to submit a paper and a Maple file.
Problem set 5 (due Oct 24th) Exercises 12 and 13.
Problem set 6 (due Oct 31th) Exercises 14 and 15.
Problem set 7 (Due Nov 7th) This exercise
Problem set 8 (Due Nov 14th) Choosse two exercises out of 19, 20 and 21.
Project 2 (due Nov 26th) As in Project 1, you need to submit a Maple file through "regular" assignement and a paper through SafeAssign.
Problem set 9 (Choose two problems) ) (due Wed Dec 3rd)

Problem set 10 (Choose three problems from sets 9 and 10, due Wed Dec 10th )

Project 3 (due Wed Dec 17th) You need to submit a paper through SafeAssign, and a Maple file through "regular" assignements

About the course (in pdf)
Grades are in Blackboard
Homework must be submitted through Blackboard (always reemember to remove output of the Maple file before uploading.)
Classes can be downloaded here.

The course text in html, in pdf
(written by Scott Sutherland and Santiago Simanca)

Chapter 0: Preliminaries (also PDF)
Chapter 1: Curve Fitting (also PDF)
Chapter 2: A Glider Model (also PDF)
Chapter 3: Cryptography (also PDF)
Chapter 5: A turtle in a fractal garden (also PDF)

Interesting and useful information about Maple can be found in Maplesoft website. For instance, you can download several manuals (Getting Started, User Manual, Introductory Programming Guide, etc). You need to be a member to download these manuals, but membership is free.

Maple can be bough at the Seawolves Market or downloaded from Softweb. To download from Softweb, enter using the indicated password (read carefully, it is not your usual password) and go to University Licensed Applications.
You can also use ssh to download or upload files from and to the MathLab. In this way, you can download your Maple files to the computers you are working on. The application ssh is installed at all Sinc sites.
For ssh instructions, read here.
For remote graphical acces to MathLab follow these intructions.