Schedule

A week-by-week breakdown of the material.

Week 1 (09/02-09/06)

Mon: Intro, CoCalc, start on divisibility
Wed: More practice writing proofs
Fri: Divisibility (1.1-1.6)

Week 2 (09/09-09/13)

Mon

Congruences (1.7-1.14)

Wed

Congruences and divisibility criteria (1.15-1.24)

Fri

Congruences and divisibility criteria continued (1.15-1.24)

First programming assignment, due Wednesday. Look in code/assignment1/sampleStartCode.sagews.

Week 3 (09/16-09/20)

Mon: Congruences and divisibility criteria continued (1.15-1.24)
Wed: The division algorithm and common divisors (1.25-1.34)
Fri: The division algorithm and common divisors (1.25-1.34)

Week 4 (09/23-09/27)

Mon: common divisors (1.29-1.34)
Wed: Euclidean algorithm and relatively prime numbers (1.35-1.45)
Fri: Diophantine equations (1.46-1.58)

Week 5 (09/30-10/04)

Mon: Prime numbers and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (2.1-2.11)
Wed: Applications of the fundamental theorem (2.12-2.24)
Fri: Exam 1 (Chapter 1)

Week 6 (10/07-10/11)

Mon: More prime divisibility and gcd properties (2.25-2.31)
Wed: Infinitude of primes (2.32-2.39)
Fri: Other facts about primes (2.41-2.44, 2.48)

Week 7 (10/14-10/18)

Mon: FALL BREAK Wed; TBD
Fri: TBD

Week 8 (10/21-10/25)

Mon: TBD
Wed: TBD
Fri: TBD

Week 9 (10/28-11/01)

Mon: TBD
Wed: TBD
Fri: TBD

Week 10 (11/04-11/08)

Mon: TBD
Wed: TBD
Fri: Exam 2 (Chapter 2)

Week 11 (11/11-11/15)

Mon: TBD
Wed: TBD
Fri: TBD

Week 12 (11/18-11/22)

Mon: TBD
Wed: TBD
Fri: TBD

Week 13 (11/25-11/29)

Mon: TBD
Wed: TBD
Fri: TBD

Week 14 (12/02-12/06)

Mon: Chapter 7 notes
Fri: Midterm 3 study guide