Math 101: Introduction to Mathematical Sciences

January 2006

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: Every day, 12:30 - 1:30.

Textbook: COMAP, For All Practical Purposes, sixth edition

Class Meetings: MTWRF 8:30AM - 12:00 noon, Jordan 74

Daily Schedule

Detailed class schedule (25KB PDF) LaTeX source

Other Materials

• Syllabus (44KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Project 1 (25KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Project 2 (68KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Isometric graph paper (12KB PDF) obtained from www.printfreegraphpaper.com.
• Project 3 (29 KB PDF) LaTeX source
• One time pad example from class (26KB PDF) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

Homework assignments are for sections marked Exercises in the book. This should not be confused with the numbered problems marked Skills Check.

Homework 1: Due 1/11

Chapter 4, 7c,d, 8c,d, 9, 10, 12, 21, 23, 24, 27, 40, 41, 45, 46 (skip "How, if at all" for these)
Chapter 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22
Chapter 1, 1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 20, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 40

Homework 2: Due 1/18

Chapter 2, 5, 8, 14, 30, 31, 33
Chapter 14, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29a,b (ignore the "Pareto" stuff)

Homework 3: Due 1/25

Chapter 12, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 17, 20, 22, 31
Chapter 9, 6 (read about the money-order scheme on page 324), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (read about the credit-card scheme on page 327), 27, 31, 34, 53
Chapter 10, 14, 15, 16
and... these additional problems (30KB PDF).