Time:
MWF 1-2
Room:
Addams Hall 307
Office hours:
MWF 11-12
Grading:
Homework: 20%Midterm Exams: 20% each
Final: 40%
Text:
Peter J. Eccles, An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning,
Cambridge University Press.
Course Info:
This course is an introduction to the language of mathematics
and, especially, to writing mathematical proofs. The mathematical
ideas needed for the proofs that you write will either be very
familiar to you, or will be introduced in the class.
Mathematical proofs are meant to communicate ideas to other people. Consequently the written proofs will be graded on the quality of the writing as well as the correctness of the mathematics.