Uli Walther
Math 746, 494-1959
walther@math.purdue.edu
teaching Math 460 Fall 2009
TTh 10:30-11:45, REC 121
Office hours: Tue 2:30-3:30, Th 1:30-2:30.
Grader's email: jtfuller at math dot purdue dot edu
Course notes: see here
Book: Vol 1(Books I,II) of "Euclid, the 13 books of the elements" from
Dover Pubications (2nd unabridged edition).
NEW:
The scores for quiz 3 and quiz 5 have mysteriously disappeared from the
scoresheets. Please bring them in on Thursday!
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The Midterm
Day and time: Thursday October 22 in class.
Composition: 2 out of 8 theorems from the notes(3,9,10,11,14,16,19,21),
plus 2 HW problems, plus 2 you have not seen before.
The Final
Day and time: Dec 16, 7pm-9pm.
The location is: REC 313.
Composition: like midterm, but 3/3/3.
Euclid Props to know: 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 18, 20, 32. (I'll pick 3 for
the final)
Homework Assignments
Geometer's Sketchpad
- The program is available off campus through
ITaP
- Here's a
tutorial
- Another
tutorial
- If you'd like to buy the student edition, click
here
- For linux users, there is a free version of
Sketchpad called KSEG. If you run Debian or ubuntu, ask your synaptic
package manager to get busy. After opening KSEG, look at "help" and read.
Euclid
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