MAA 4212
Sections 16E9 (14752) and 3009 (14771), Spring 2021
Assignment 0
Last updated Fri Jan 8 06:46 EST 2021
Note the "last updated" above. This will
always be here to let you easily tell whether there have been changes
since the last time you looked at this page.
Due-date: Thursday 1/14/21 (but there is nothing to hand in!)
- Read the Class home page,
Syllabus and course information,
and
Homework rules handouts.
- Go to the miscellaneous handouts
page and read (or re-read, if you were in my class last semester)
the handouts "What is a proof?", "Mathematical
grammar and correct use of terminology", and
"One-to-one and onto:
What you are really doing
when you solve equations".
(Although this course's prerequisites
are supposed to cover most of this material,
most students enter MAA 4211 without
having had
sufficient feedback on their work to eliminate common mistakes or bad
habits. Even with plenty of feedback, a great many of my
students last semester were still making these
mistakes at the end of the course.)
- (Re-)read Section 5.3 (pp. 133–135), "Mathematical Writing",
in Richard Hammack's
Book of Proof (the textbook now being used for MHF 3202, Sets and
Logic).
- (Re-)read the file "run_on_and_comma_fault.pdf" that's posted
(or will be, soon) in Canvas under Files.
- Remind yourself that even in mathematical writing, every
sentence starts with a capital letter, and ends with a period.
If I was still correcting the beginnings and/or ends of any of your sentences
late last semester, write ten times: "Every
sentence starts with a capital letter, and ends with a period."
General homework page
Class home page