Textbook: The Latex Companion, by Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin
Suggested Schedule
- Week 1
- Latex lecture and exercises I
- Write a 1-2 page paper on why math is useful or important
Use an audience of readers of Newsweek.
Pick a term paper topic.
- Week 2
- Ch. 2, Business efficiency (optimal routing)
- Week 3
- Ch. 2, Business efficiency (traveling salesman problem)
- Week 4
- Ch. 3, Planning and Scheduling
- Week 5
- Ch. 3, Planning and Scheduling
Exam #1
- Ch. 3, Planning and Scheduling
- Week 6
- Beginning of Ch. 7 (sampling). Then Ch. 5, Exploring Data: Summaries and Plots.
- Week 7
- Ch. 7, Data for decisions: Good and bad sampling methods. Ch. 6.
- Week 8
- Ch. 7, Data for decisions: Good and bad inferences from data.
- Week 9
- SPRING BREAK
- Week 10
- Ch. 16, Identification numbers (bar codes, zip codes)
- Week 11
- Ch. 17, Information Science (binary codes, parity check sums).
Exam #2
- Ch. 17, Information Science (binary codes, parity check sums).
- Weeks 12-13
- Ch. 17, Cryptography
- Weeks 14-15
- Optional material, to be announced (TBA)
- Comprehensive Final exam.