Homework One


Due Friday, January 8, 2016.

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. 6
  5. 7
  6. 11

Chapter 2

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 7
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 12

(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.)