Mathematics 467, Section 900, Spring 2017
Modern Geometry
Last updated Wed 10 May 2017
Announcements (reverse chronological order)
- May 10: Grades will very soon be visible in eCampus.
(Graduating senior grades have been reported to Howdy.) Please note:
- Grades were based on the course total in eCampus plus 10 points.
The rationale for this "curve" is that scores on regular homework
and class participation came out lower than expected.
- I did NOT regard your class participation, collectively, as deficient.
The 60-point base turned out too big for the opportunities that existed.
- Some day I'll put up a final exam key with the answers for the
questions on the first page. (The other pages are either essays or
regurgitations of things that are in the book and summarized on older
test keys.) Almost nobody understood the Dehn question: The Dehn models
are hyperbolic (have nonunique parallels) but don't have the
acute-angle property.
(See the chart in the Halsted report.)
- The grades are rather high. You were a good bunch!
(eCampus is not computing statistics for final grades properly, so the
stats are not displayed.)
- May 1: Tomorrow (Tuesday, May 2) I'll have an office
hour at 2:00 (not 10:30, not 3:00, regardless of whatever I said
earlier).
- Apr 26:
Next
Math Club meeting, May 2 (movie)
- Apr 4:
Next Monday's office hour will be at 10:30, not 3:00
(April 10).
- Apr 2: This week (April 5, 6, 7) there will be
3 lectures by mathematician-artist Henry Segerman.
- Mar 28:
Tomorrow's office hour will be at 3:00, not 10:30
(Wed., March 29).
- Mar 27: The discussion threads to receive your team proofs
for Chapter 4 have been created in eCampus.
- Feb 20: Please note the special
Undergraduate Research Lecture on March 1.
- Feb 17: This morning somebody asked me about the term paper
and test schedule and I said something false, so here is a review of the
truth:
- rough draft due Wednesday, Feb 22
- I will return the graded drafts to you by March 3.
- test Friday, March 3 (test preview now posted below)
- revised papers due Friday, March 10 (the day before spring break)
- Jan 25: The teams you chose this morning are posted below.
Notice:
- One team is undersubscribed.
- Three students were absent.
- There is room for one more team.
- Four teams have extra members.
Volunteers are welcome to move from the 4-person teams to fill up teams
Eta and Theta.
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