Assignments for Weeks 10 and 11

Remember that the rough draft of your second paper is due Monday, Apr. 19. See posted policies for more details.

Reading

Read Chapters 5 and 6. Beware of a few misprints and foibles:

Homework due Wednesday, April 14

  1. Exercise 5.1, p. 228.
  2. Exercise 5.7, p. 231. (W) (Hint: Review textbook and class notes on "Axioms of continuity".)
  3. Exercise 6.6, p. 271-272.
  4. Exercise 6.7, p. 272.
  5. Exercise 6.10, p. 273.
  6. Use Proposition 6.1 to justify the "defect" argument in Legendre's proof (end of first full paragraph on p. 222, "Therefore ... 2d").