For a copy of the course syllabus, click here .

Homework 1 (due Friday, Jan 16).

• Page 10-11, #1, 3, 8.

• Page 13, #2.

• Page 36-37, #3, 4, 20.

• Click here for an amusing and witty article written by Tom Korner (at Cambridge University) concerning math lectures.

Homework 2 (due Fri, Jan 30).

• Page 41-42, #4, 13, 15, 19.

• Page 47-48, #10, 20.

• Page 57, #9.

• Page 62, #10, 14.

Homework 3 (due FRIDAY the THIRTEENTH).

• Page 67-68, #6, 12, 15.

• Page 71-72, #1, 2, 8.

• Page 76, #12, 18.

• Page 95-96, #9, 10, 13, 17, 21.

• Page 103, #26.

• *** Click here for a copy of an old midterm 1 from the last time I taught this course. When I taught this course at Berkeley the first time, here was the first midterm -- most of the material on that exam is irrelevant for your exam at this point, but may be relevant in another week or two. The final exam from that class might also have some relevant practice questions for you to look at. ***

• I have scheduled your first exam for Monday, Feb. 23.

Homework 4 (due Friday, Feb. 27).

• Page 109-110, #1, 2, 8, 10, 15.

• Page 118, #2, 3, 6.

• Page 123-124, #14, 24, 25, 28.

• *** Click here for a few sample problems to think about for the exam. *** NOTE: These are more difficult than what you will see on the exam; but, if you can solve them quickly, the proof questions on the exam should be easy for you.

• For a copy of the midterm, click here

• For solutions to the midterm, click here .

Homework 5 (due Friday, March 13 -- FRIDAY 13 AGAIN).

• Page 130-131, #2, 22, 24, 26, 31.

• Page 139-140, #2, 7, 19.

• Page 146-147, #2, 4, 9, 14.

• Also, work the extra problem, which can be found by going here .

Homework 6 (due Friday, April 3).

• Page 159-160, #1,7,8.

• Page 167, #1,5.

• Page 174-175, #1, 3, 7.

• Page 181, #1,2,4.

*** I have scheduled your second exam for Friday, April 10. ***

Homework 7 (due Friday, April 15).

• Page 185, #3.

• Page 191-192, #1,2,3,4.

• Page 202-203, #1, 9, 12, 14.

• Click here for a copy of an old Math 2406 exam (it seems we were further along in the course last time I gave the second midterm -- don't worry about stuff on that exam that we have not yet covered).

• Click here for the study sheet for the midterm.

• Click here for another practice exam (in fact, the exam that I gave today to Nicolas, because he needs to take it early).

• The exam will be slightly harder than the practice exam.

Final Exam Info

• First, I found an old copy of study notes from when I taught the course back in 2006. Click here for a copy of these notes. These notes have a few extra things on them right at the very end that we did not cover, such as matrix exponentials. Everything else looks ok.

• Second, for a copy of an old 2406 final exam, click here .

  *** Your exam will be on Thursday, April 30 from 11:30-2:20 (so, have lunch before coming!) ***

  I will hold ONE OFFICE HOUR this coming week on Wednesday at 3:00.

  On the review sheet I posted, which is from 2006, I wrote that the exam will be ``Open Note''. In fact, your exam on Thursday WILL NOT BE OPEN NOTE.

  Click here for a copy of an early 2406 final I just gave (the guy taking it had a conflict of three exams on one day).

  I have decided that you can bring simple calculators to the exam. Also, there was an error on the study sheet (now corrected) on finding the distance from a plane to a point.

• Click here for a copy of the final exam.

• Note: there were two errors on the original draft of the exam (which I wrote at 2am last night!) -- one minor, one major. The minor error was forgetting to say that n > 1 on problem 3, and the major error was in problem 8, where the bottom row should have been 1 0, not 0 1. On problem 8 I will give everyone automatic full credit -- i.e. that problem is a freebee.

Links for further reading material.

• For a really nice introduction to quantum computing, click here .

• For a good introduction to the Google PageRank algorithm, go here .