Assignments

"Reasonable'' collaboration is permitted, but you should not just copy someone else's solution or look up a solution from an outside source. We will (subjectively) indicate the difficulty level of each problem as follows:

[1] easy
[2] moderately difficult
[3] difficult
[4] horrendously difficult
[5] unsolved

Further gradations are indicated by + and -; e.g., [3-] is a little easier than [3]. A rating of [5-] denotes an unsolved problem that has received little (if any) attention and may not be difficult.

 

Assignments Comments
Problem Set 1 (PDF) Hand in your best three problems.
Problem Set 2 (PDF) Hand in your best four problems.
Problem Set 3 (PDF) Hand in your best four problems.
Problem Set 4 (PDF) Hand in Problem 4 (required of everyone) and your best two problems of those that remain (three problems in all).
Problem Set 5 (PDF) Hand in your best three problems.