10/22/07 New Note: Proof of Gap Lemma—see Notes page
This note includes a complete proof based upon the Peano Postulates. It includes all the requisite preliminary results. You should find it easier to follow the entire development than chasing around in the book for
the various steps along the way.
1/04/07 Exam 1 solutions & scores statistics—see Exams page
9/03/07 Two ways to help yourself succeed in Math 300:
- Read assigned reading before the lecture when it will be covered.
- Learn (“memorize”?) precise statements of definitions.
- Attend every class.
9/1/07 Welcome to my Math 300!
- Please be sure to attend the first class Tuesday, Sept. 4.
- You’ll want to purchase the textbook now, although for a couple of days we’ll be working with material from some notes about logic.
- Please read the course description: see the separate pages in the About section here, or look at the summary course policy cited there.
- So that we can schedule everybody into one of the weekly Math 391A.2 co-seminar sessions, no later than Thursday, Sept. 6, bring to class a copy
of your class schedule, a list of times that are genuinely impossible for you (e.g., because of official scheduled activities), and a rank ordering of your preferences from among the currently reserved times:
Tuesdays 4:00 (LGRT 1114), 5:00 (LGRT 1114)
Wednesdays, 2:30 (LGRT 1114), 3:35 (LGRT 1114), 4:40 (LGRT 123)
8/30/07 You must also enroll in Math 391A section 2 Co-seminar
Math 391A is a weekly 50-minute small-group tutorial session where material covered in lecture is reviewed, more questions are answered, and more problems and examples are worked out. It
is led by an undergraduate teaching assistant, Ms. Elizabeth (“Liz”) Monahan, who has taken Math 300. We will set up the meeting times according to your schedule and hers, and you will then be assigned
to one of those weekly times.
8/30/07 Registration problems with Math 391A?
Spire lists the time for the Math 391A.2 co-seminar as "TBA". This should mean that no matter when your other courses are, Spire should not block you from registering for
Math 391A.2 due to an alleged time conflict.
But…if you are already at the maximum 18 credits for the semester (not counting Math 391A) and now need to get a course overload permission
in order to add that one more credit: When you fill out the "Petition for overload of credit" (see below), you may find the following statement useful:
Students who register for the 3-credit course Math 300, are required
to enroll concurrently in the 1-credit "co-seminar" Math 391A. This
additional credit does NOT represent more work for the student! In fact,
attending the weekly Math 391A session will actually make the total
study burden EASIER for the student. The reason is that Math 391A,
meeting with around a half dozen students and led by a UGTA, is
in effect a study group / help session.
Murray Eisenberg
Professor
Math & Stat
murray@math.umass.edu
The petition for overload of credit goes to the Arts & Sciences Advising Center in Machmer if you have a declared major in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences—which you would if
you are already a math major, e.g.—or to the Pre-Major Advising Services office if you have not yet declared a major. You can get a copy of the petition form on-line at:
www.umass.edu/artsci_advising/forms/petition_for_overload_of_credit.pdf
[declared majors]
www.umass.edu/uaasc/forms/Petition%20for%20Credit%20Overload.pdf
[undeclared major]
8/30/07 First 391A co-seminar meetings will not be until week of Sept. 10.
Reminder—please:
- Turn off all cellphone ringers, pagers, and watch alarms before class!
- Please follow these e-mail guidlines when you send e-mail to me.
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