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Rhea Section for MA 460 Professor Uli Walther, Fall 2009

Course web page

ANNOUNCEMENTS

-12-8-09 Bring quiz 3 and quiz 5 to class on Thursday the scores have disappeared.

-9/15/09 Study Group Meeting Tonight 7:30 p.m. REC 121! A study group session will be held tonight (Tuesday, September 15, 2009) at 7:30 p.m. in REC 121. We will continue to have these on the same day and time unless otherwise noted. The actual meeting is planned for REC 121, but if it is taken we will find another room. So meet at REC 121. We will try and get Uli to reserve this room for our time slot. Hope to see you there!

-9/22/09 Tonight and last week we have met in REC 123, so we plan on doing the same for the following meetings.

-9/29/09 Euclid groups have been defined, see the next big item below.

-11/19/09 Euclid propositions for the final: 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 18, 20, 32.

Euclid groups and propositions

Software requirement

The preferred browser to use Rhea is Firefox version 3.

How to get started

• If you click a blue link, it should get you somewhere interesting; if you click a red one you need to put interesting stuff there yourself.
• Click the "Help" button above and read what's there.
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The Course Page

Final exam

You may bring: .

No books, no calculators.

What's New

• Geometer's Sketchpad for ubuntu

Course Related Material

• Course Notes
• Discussion of the course notes

Homework Related

• Homework Discussion

Euclid

Exam Related

• The final is cumulative.

Miscellaneous

Discussions

Area to post questions, set up study groups, etc. Calculus Classes 1 and 2 Both of these classes have many options to them. For Calculus 2 you can take one of three options. 162 is the lowest level that you could take. This is going to be in a larger lecture hall and with little to no individual attention. Then you have 172 which is a higher level honors course. Its going to be a lot like 162 except more work, and you will have a few more projects to complete. Finally 181 is the highest version on could take. It is a lot of proofs and is typically for gifted students that want to challenge themselves.

• Study Group for MA460
• Ideas for posting
• World cup 2010 in South Africa
• Interesting Math to discuss
• Alan Turing

Questions for Uli

Uli has agreed to contribute to Rhea under the condition that someone maintain the page regarding questions for him. Therefore, if you would like your question read by Uli, please post it here:

• Questions for Uli (0 new)

Book market

• Ideas how to get cheap text books
• selling books
• good used book stores