Introduction to Higher Mathematics

MATH 3200

University of Georgia, Fall 2003


Instructor | Class meetings | Office hours | Syllabus  | Exams, homework, and grading | Exam schedule | Useful links



Instructor

Professor Gordana Matic
Office: 321A Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, (706) 542-2557
Email:gordana@math.uga.edu
Fax: (706) 542-5907



Class meetings

11.15 - 12.05 Monday, Wednesday  and  Friday
310 Dawson Hall


Office hours


Monday Wednesday Friday  10.10 -11.00
Friday 8.15 - 9.00  and after class
- or by appointment -


Syllabus

The required textbook is Proofs and Fundamentals, by Ethan Bloch. We'll cover chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, and some topics from chapters 7, 8, 9. (Chapters 1 and 2 are background, and they will be referred to as needed.)

You can get it at the UGA Bookstore,and in the bookstores on Baxter Street have it: Off Campus Bookstore (548-9376), Follett Textbook Exchange (369-7399), and Baxter Street Bookstore (549-3081).

Summary of topics:

Sets, functions, relations, infinite and finite sets. Additional topics from geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and number theory.

Course prerequisites:

Second semester calculus: MATH 2210 or MATH 2310H or MATH 2410H.

Useful texts



Exams, homework, and grading

There will be three one-hour exams and a final exam. Homework will be due at least once a week, and it will be graded. Late homework will not be accepted. Each of the hour exams will count 20% of the grade, homework will count 20%, and the final exam will count 20%.




Exam schedule

Exam 1: Friday, September 19
Exam 2: Wednesday, October 22
Exam 3: Monday , November 24
Final exam: Wed, December 10, 12:00-3:00 pm



http://www.math.uga.edu/~gordana/3200/home.htm