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Writing Lab
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Reading Lab
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Week 6: Into the infinite (Subject to slight changes which will be announced in tutorial and via email.)
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10/4
Tuesday
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- Skim Clegg, Ch. 1-5
You have already read parts of this.
- Clegg, Ch. 6
(You have already read p. 61 -- 67.)
- Clegg, Ch. 7
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Paper #1 DUE!!! (Email to [shumank] by 8 a.m.)
Prepare two questions for discussion from the readings. Bring your questions with you to class.
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Class 10/4
- Discussion of Clegg, using your questions.
- We will finish our talk about limits that we started a while back (limits of partial sums).
- We will prove that 1 + .5 + .25 + .125 + ... = 2.
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10/6
Thursday
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- Clegg, Ch. 8 (Indivisibles)
- Clegg, Ch. 9 (Fluxion wars!)
- Seife, Ch. 4 (Zero and infinity)
- Seife, Ch. 5 (Calculus and more)
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Prepare three questions for discussion from the readings. Bring your questions with you to class.
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Class 10/6
- Discussion of readings---there's a lot here!
- Sign-up for Week 7 meetings. There will be no tutorial class meeting during Week 7. You will each have a short appointment during regular tutorial time with Karen to talk about your writing and participation so far in the course, as well as to check up and talk about how things are going in general.
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