Homework One


Due Friday, January 9, 2009. This assignment is shorter usual.

Autobiography: Write a brief paragraph (or send me an email) describing the math classes you've taken previously. Be sure to indicate where you took those classes: high school, COA, another college. Feel free to mention any other information about your math background that might be relevant, interesting, and/or amusing. Also, please let me know what other courses you expect to take this term, and if there are some areas (art, policy, education, etc.) in which you're particularly interested and/or you're focusing while at COA.


Chapter 1

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 6
  6. 8

(Note: What this means is that the first problem you should do is problem number 2 from chapter 1, the second problem you should do is problem 3 from chapter 1, and so on.)