Homework Assignments
(Most recent first.)
- Assignment 9 (due Wednesday, 3/10/10):
- Chapter 7, Problems 7.2, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11
- Assignment 8 (due Wednesday, 3/3/10):
- Chapter 6, Problems 6.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9.
- Assignment 7 (due Wednesday, 2/24/10):
- Problems 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.6
- Problems E.1 and E.2 (Appendix E)
- Assignment 6 (due Wednesday, 2/10/10):
- Chapter 4:
Write two-column and paragraph proofs of Theorems 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 4.11,4.12.
Write paragraph proofs of Theorems 4.13 and 4.14.
- Chapter 4:
- Assignment 5 (due Wednesday, 2/3/10):
- Chapter 3, Problems 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
- Assignment 4 (due Wednesday, 1/27/10):
Part I:
- Chapter 2, Problems 2.1 through 2.7.
- Chapter 2, Problems 2.8 through 2.11.
(Note that these problems refer to the parallel postulates described on pages 34-35. We haven't talked about them yet, but we will on Monday. Get started on the problems now, and if you have any questions about parallel postulates, bring them up on the blog or in Monday's class.)
- Chapter 2, Problems 2.1 through 2.7.
- Assignment 3 (due Wednesday, 1/20/10):
- Read Chapters 1-7 of Jacobs, and do the following problems. (You don't need to restate the problem, or write your answers in complete sentences; just write your answers and show whatever work you did to arrive at them.)
- pp. 47-49, #1-11, 24-27.
- pp. 63-64, #37-39, 41.
- pp. 88-89, #45.
- pp. 102-104, #34, 41-47.
- pp. 113-115, #16-20, 40-43.
- pp. 177-178, #12-24.
- pp. 207-209, #12–14, 47-8.
- p. 246, #18–22.
- p. 248, #1–11.
- p. 274, #36–43.
- Read Chapters 1-7 of Jacobs, and do the following problems. (You don't need to restate the problem, or write your answers in complete sentences; just write your answers and show whatever work you did to arrive at them.)
- Assignment 2 (due Wednesday, 1/13/10):
Part I:- Rewrite the statement and proof of Euclid's Proposition 1 in more modern, idiomatic English.
- Copy Euclid's proofs of Propositions 6 and 10 (Book I), and identify each of the standard six parts: enunciation, setting out, specification, construction, proof, and conclusion.
- Rewrite the statements and proofs of Propositions 6, 9, 10, and 16 in more modern, idiomatic English. I've attached my own version of Proposition 5 on the blog, so you can see what I'm looking for.
- Assignment 1 (due Wednesday, 1/6/10):
Figure out how to solve Problem 2 on the sheet of challenge problems. Then make a list of all the general "geometric facts" you used (such as "the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180o"), and write up your solution as clearly and completely as possible, referring to your geometric facts when needed