Autumn 2015
Math 220: Foundations of Mathematics     Sections 906 & 908.

Piazza Class page.
Giudelines for Flatland.   Flatland in html another source
Homework can be found here.
Instructor: Frank Sottile       Weekly schedule
No Telephone (Budget Cuts)
email: sottile@math.tamu.edu
      Text-only email with 220 in the subject line.
WWW: /~sottile
Office: Blocker 601K
 Office Hours : Mondays9:30–11:00
Fridays11:00–12:00
By appointment
Textbook: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, by Bond and Keane.
Lectures: 908: TuTh 12:45–14:00 Blocker 148
906: TuTh 14:20–15:35 Blocker 148
Help Sessions: Monday–Wednesday 6–8 PM in Blocker 111
Course Forum: We will be using Piazza as a forum for class discussion.
For technical prolems with that site email team@piazza.com
Our class page.
Course Content: From the catalog: Foundations of mathematics including
logic, set theory, combinatorics, and number theory.
Prerequisites: Second Semester Calculus with a grade
of 'C' or higher.
Course webpage: www.math.tamu.edu/~sottile/teaching/15.2/220.html
Departmental page for Math 220
Special Note: Your goal in this course, as in every course that you ever take, should be a complete mastery of the material. Anything less is aspiring to mediocrity and doing yourself a disservice. I expect you to read the section in the text that we will be covering before we meet. Come to class ready to ask questions about what you do not yet know. After class, re-read the text and your notes, and do some exercises to complete your mastery of the material. Finally, ask questions in class, lots of them.
Grading   You will be expected to attend all class meetings; I do keep track of such matters, but allow a few absences before penalties begin. There will be three in-term exams, each worth 20% and a paper on Flatland for 15%. The remaining 25% will be homework and attendance. NO FINAL EXAM, the paper is in lieu of the exam.
Exam Schedule
First exam:   Tuesday, 29 September
Second exam:   Tuesday, 27 October
Third exam:   Thursday, 3 December
Flatland paper dates:   Class discussion:   5 November
Paper topic:  12 November
Paper Draft:  19 November
Peer review:   1 December
Paper due:  9 December
Emergencies: If you have a valid reason (medical or family emergency) for missing an exam, then I will give you an alternative exam, preferably before the scheduled exam. Missing an exam without a valid reason will result in a score of zero for that exam.
Homework:
Homework is assigned most classes, and will be due on Tuesdays. It will be marked and returned by the following Tuesday. More details are on the homework page.

    Late homeworks are not accepted. The two lowest homework scores will be dropped before computing your grade.

Zeroeth Assignment : Read this web page, and send me a text-only email that you have read and understood the course descriptions and policies. Please also answer the following questions:
    (1) Why are you taking this course?
    (2) What do you hope to get out of this course?
    (3) Is there anything else that you want to tell me (that is relevant to the course)?
First homework : (Due first day of class)
  (1) Read the Introduction for the Student in our book.
  (2) Watch the Numberphile video on 1+2+3+....
  (3) Look up some more web resources related to this (explore)
  (4) Hand in at least a paragraph (not a short one) about numbers (1)–(3); what you think of them, or what is wrong/right with these outrageous sums, or what you learned from this, or ....

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