1. Week 1 - Jan 7-11

2. Week 2 - Jan 14-18

3. Week 3 - Jan 21-25

4. Week 4 - Jan 28 - Feb 1

5. Week 5 - Feb 4 - 8

6. Week 6 - Feb 11 - 15

7. Week 7 - Feb 18 - 22

8. Week 8 - Feb 25 - Mar 1

9. Week 9 - Mar 4 - 8

10. Week 10 - Mar 11 - 15

11. Exam Week Mar 18 - 22

Topic: Chapters from The Book of Numbers

Instructor: James King, C440 Padelford, Tel. 543-1915
Office Hours: TBA and by appointment. (Feel free to ask for a time to meet. Send email.)
Email: king@math.washington.edu
Home Page: www.math.washington.edu/~king

This course will be devoted to the topic of "number", exploring ways of writing and talking about numbers, special kinds of numbers, interesting facts about numbers, stories from history, counting problems, and extensions of the concept of number from counting numbers and rational to irrational numbers and then to complex numbers and infinite numbers.

For more details, see the Course Description Page.

General Course Description.

Textbook and Sources

Required text is The Book of Numbers, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy (ISBN 0-387-97993-X).

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