Mathematics 467, Sections 900 and 901, Fall 2016
Modern Geometry
Last updated Sun 18 Dec 2016
Announcements (reverse chronological order)
- Dec 16: Grades are now available on
eCampus. Note:
- The regular homework score is multiplied by 80/315 to get
the properly scaled score.
- Class participation scores are based on your team
presentations and web postings, plus half a point for every
day you signed the attendance sheet, plus extra points for
various contributions that I was able to record, plus a 6-point bonus
to bring the median up to something reasonable.
(On the other hand, I did not deduct points from
the term paper scores to bring that median down to something
reasonable.)
Failure to reach
a perfect score should not be interpreted as a "deduction" for
doing something wrong, but rather as a shortage of extra
contributions. As with the papers, the threshold of perfection
is infinite.
- To the course total I added 20 points, because the regular
homework and final exam scores were not as
high as I think they should be.
So, add 20 to your course total and divide by 5.5 to get your
average, which should match your letter grade.
- I hope to post test keys before Monday.
- Dec 2: End-of-semester office hours:
- On Monday,
December 5, I will try to be in my office 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00
but can't promise I'll be there the whole time. (That's a Friday, after
all!)
- Tuesday, December 6, there will be the usual office
hour at 11:10 (even though it's a Thursday).
- Thursday, December 8, I plan to be there most of the afternoon
(2-5).
- Nov 18: Office hours on Monday, November 21,
will be at 2 and 4 (more precisely, 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00).
- Nov 14: Next
Math Club
meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 15.
poster.
- Nov 11: Office hours on Monday, November 14,
will be at 2 and 4 (more precisely, 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00).
- Nov 4: Office hours on Monday, November 7,
will be at 2 and 4 (more precisely, 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00).
(The
physics seminar at 3:00 involves projective geometry.)
- Nov 1:
Change in policy regarding term papers: In your
second paper, please format the references exactly as prescribed by the
MAA
Reference Guide, paying particular attention to on-line items. Note
that in this style, bibliography items are numbered and therefore should
be cited in the text by numbers in brackets (such as "[3]"), not by,
for example, author and year.
- Oct 15:
- Office hours on Monday, October 17,
will be at 2 and 4 (more precisely, 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00).
- Midterm exam key is now visible at the proper spot below.
- Oct 12: Graded paper rough drafts will be returned Friday,
Oct. 14. Revisions are due Monday, October 24.
- Oct 7: Office hours on Monday, October 10,
will be at 2 and 4 (more precisely, 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00).
- Oct 5:
- In the next homework (due October 19) you
need to "formulate" and prove a lemma as the W problem. Then you need
to use the lemma in the next regular problem. Please copy your
formulation (lemma statement) into the regular homework paper so the
grader will know what you are trying to do there.
- A proof of Prop. 3.13 (this morning's exercise) is now linked below.
- Sep 30: Office hours on Monday, October 3,
will be at 2 and 4 (more precisely, 2:00-2:50 and 4:10-5:00).
- Sep 24: The revision of the first term paper will be due
Friday, October 21.
Somehow this information got lost from the syllabus handout.
(A revised handout is now here.)
- Sep 16:
- Somebody left a textbook (Greenberg) and
unfinished homework paper in the classroom at 10:00 today. They are in
the wall pouch next to my office door.
- I may be late for the office hour on Tuesday, September 20.
- Sep 2: Office hour news
- The Monday hours will be 2:00-4:00, not 3:00-5:00 as previously
announced.
In certain weeks I may be elsewhere during the 3 o'clock hour and back
during the 4 o'clock hour; I'll try to let you know well in advance.
- I may be late for the office hour on Tuesday, September 6.
Course procedures and resources
Old class home pages
[Old homework and team
solutions will be turned on after your assignments are due.]
Lecture notes
[These were not originally intended for public consumption. Diagrams are
missing. Remarks in square brackets are usually stage directions to
myself.]
[These links start out pointing to previous semesters' notes.
They will be replaced as I make revisions.]
Printer version
Projector version
Weekly instructions
[These will become available at the links below as the course
develops. Analogues from previous semesters are visible on the old home
pages; they won't change much.]
Test solutions
(Of course, these do not exist until after the test.
Old tests, with solutions to most non-essay questions,
are visible on the old home pages.)
External resources
Go to home pages:
Fulling ._._.
Calclab ._._.
Math Dept ._._.
University
e-mail: fulling@math.tamu.edu