Assignments for Weeks 4 and 5
Remember that your first paper is due Friday, Feb. 20.
Reading
Read the "Betweenness" part of Chapter 3 (up to p. 119).
(Deemphasize "Affine planes over ordered fields", pp. 117-118.)
Discussion questions
Each team is responsible for leading the class discussion of one of the
propositions in the main text left as exercises:
- ALPHA -- Prop. 3.1(ii) = Ex. 2(a)
- BETA -- Prop. 3.3, second part = Ex. 2(b)
- GAMMA -- Corollary to Prop. 3.3 = Ex. 2(d)
- DELTA -- Prop. 3.5 = Ex. 3(c)
- EPSILON -- Prop. 3.6 = Ex. 5
- ZETA -- Prop. 3.7 = Ex. 9 and 10
- ETA -- Prop. 3.8 = Ex. 11
- THETA -- Prop. 3.9 = Ex. 12
Homework due Wednesday, Feb. 25 (in Week 6)
- Exercise 1, p. 146.
- Exercise 2(c), p. 146.
- Exercise 3(a,b), p. 146. <- In 3(a), "CD" should be "CB".
- Exercise 4, p. 146.
- Exercise 15, p. 149.
- Exercise 18, p. 149.
In addition, each team should turn in a single written version of
its proof.