18.700 (Fall 2009)


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Syllabus : [pdf] [ps]

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Office Hours :
Andy Putman (Instructor) in 2-167 : TTh 10-11
Tsao-Hsien Chen (TA) in 2-251 : M 4-5, F 6-7

Midterm Exams (in class) : Oct. 23, Dec. 4

HW 1 (due Wed., Sept. 16th) :
Section 0.2 : 1 (b,e,h), 2 (a,e), 6, 10, 12
Section 0.3 : 2, 3, 5, 9, 11
Solutions

HW 2 (due Wed., Sept. 23rd; updated to remove 0.6.1) :
Section 0.4 : 3, 4, 9, 10
Section 0.5 : 2, 3, 4, 6
Section 0.6 : 3, 7, 9
Solutions

HW 3 (due Wed., Sept. 30th) :
Section 0.6 : 1, 12, 16, 18, 20
Section 1.1 : 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
Solutions

HW 4 (due Wed., Oct. 7th) :
Section 1.2 : 2, 4, 6, 8
Section 1.3 : 2, 4, 6, 10, 16
Solutions

HW 5 (due Wed., Oct. 14th) :
Section 1.4 : 4, 10, 12, 18
Section 1.5 : 2, 6, 10
Section 2.1 : 2ace, 4, 8
Solutions

No homework due Oct. 21st because of test on Oct. 23rd

HW 6 (due Wed., Oct. 28th) :
Section 2.1 : 12
Section 2.2 : 2, 6, 8
Section 2.3 : 2bce, 4, 8
Solutions

HW 7 (due Wed., Nov. 4th) :
Section 3.1 : 2, 4, 6, 8
Section 3.2 : 2, 6, 10, 12, 16, 26
Solutions

HW 8 (due Fri., Nov. 13th) :
Section 3.3 : 2, 4, 12
Section 3.4 : 2abc, 4, 6
Section 3.5 : 6, 8, 10
Section 4.1 : 2, 4 (note that the norm in the problem comes from an inner product), 6

HW 9 (due Wed., Nov. 18th) :
Section 4.1 : 12, 16
Section 4.2 : 2, 4, 8
Section 4.3 : 2, 4, 6, 10a

HW 10 (due Wed., Nov. 25th) :
Section 4.4 : 4, 6
Section 4.5 : 2, 4, 10, 12
Section 6.1 : 2, 4, 8