Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics

Professor: Norman Sheu

Discussion

  • Section 102: Tue & Thu, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Dwinelle 130
  • Section 104: Tue & Thu, 9:30 am - 11:00 am, Dwinelle 187

We have Berkeley time - discussion will start 10 minutes later than stated above.

Office hour

Mon 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Wed 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Evans 1066

  • No office hour on Feb 21 (Wednesday), and this one will be moved to Feb 23 (Friday) 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm.

  • No office hour on Mar 20 (Wednesday), and this one will be moved to Mar 22 (Friday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am.

  • No office hour on April 3 (Wednesday).

  • There will be additional office hours on May 1 (Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00pm and May 2 (Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm.

You can go to any GSI’s office hour if this conflicts with your schedules. Also, feel free to email me for any specific questions so that we can possibly have an extra meeting.

Homework

You need to submit homework every Thursday, at the end of the discussion. Also, you must submit only physical copy - do not email me!. Five problems wil be chosen at random to be graded for completion. Three of the lowest homework scores will be dropped. Working with others is encouraged, but you must write your solutions on your own and write the names of your collaborators at the top of the assignment. Also, no homework for the first week.

Quizzes

There are NO quizzes in this class!

Attendance

Attendence will be checked at the end of every discussion. It is strongly encouraged to attend all the discussions. Also, attending all (two) discussions in a week would give 0.375% extra credit, and a maximum of 3% can be added in this way (so 8 weeks of full attendances will give you the maximum extra credit).

Q&A

Most of the questions are already answered in Norman Sheu’s website above. But in case you haven’t find an answer to your question…

Q. I want to practice more. Are there any additional resources or excercises available?

A. You can find a bunch of resource in this website. See the previous classes I taught and you’ll see what I mean.

Q. What if I don’t believe Monty Hall Problem?

A. Check out this website: https://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/2021/montyhall/Monty.html

and also this video if you are familiar with Korean: https://youtu.be/6NDum5WjZqU?si=DeDU-nbgcD2nKNOY

Worksheets

  Tue Thu
Week1 - 240118
Week2 240123 240125
Week3 240130 240201
Week4 240206 240208
Week5 240213 240215
Week6 240220 mid1 review
Week7 240227 240229
Week8 240305 240307
Week9 240312 240314
Week10 240319 240321
Week11 🏖 Spring Break 🏖
Week12 mid2 prep mid2 review
Week13 240409 240411
Week14 240416 240418
Week15 240423 240425

Let me know if you find any errors in the worksheets (and solutions). These will be also uploaded on bCourses - Files.

Graded HW problems (ramdomly selected)

HW 1

12.1 #5 #17 #25 #31 #37

HW 2

6.1 #47 #57 / 6.2 #15 #41 #43

HW 3

6.3 #21 #33 #43 / 6.4 #19 #37

HW 4

6.5 #9 #11 #21 / 12.2 #39 #45

HW 5

7.1 #15 #23 #33 / 7.2 #5 #7

HW 6

7.2 #13 #23 / 12.3 #5 #7 #15

HW 7

12.1 #41 #59 / 7.2 #31 / 7.3 #3 #13

HW 8

12.4 #15 #25 #51 / 7.4 #5 #19

HW 9

12.5 #5 #7 #25 / 7.4 #27 #45

HW 10

12.5 #31 #49 #55 #61 #75

HW 11

4 #B5 #D3 / 5 #C1 #E1 / 17 #A4

HW 12

13.1 #3 #11 #23 / 13.2 #3 #9

HW 13

26 #A4 #B3 #C2 #D1 / 13.3 #5

Extra notes