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Section 002 (Bayer)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:10am-10:25am
304 Barnard Hall

Dave Bayer (x42643, 426 Mathematics, www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer)
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Email

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Please include the phrase "Surfaces and Knots Spring 2004" in the subject line of any correspondence with me concerning this course.

In particular, if for any reason you do not take and hand in each exam in our regular classroom at the regularly scheduled time, it is your responsibility to document the status of your exam by sending me an email with this subject line, including your full name in the body of the message. Ask anyone writing on your behalf to do the same.


Office Hours


Exams

There will be two exams (30 points each) and a final (40 points). The final is not cumulative.

These dates do not coincide with any religious holiday which causes suspension of New York City's alternate side parking regulations; see NYC Parking Calendar. Please discuss other conflicts with me well in advance of the exam in question.

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Grading

This course will be graded according to the following scale:

95 - 100 90 - 94 85 - 89 80 - 84 75 - 79 70 - 74 65 - 69 60 - 64 50 - 59 0 - 49
A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D F

Extra points will be awarded for first reports of mistakes in practice materials. In particular, this is the only way one can achieve a grade of A+.


Text: The following text is optional, but is highly recommended:

Teaching Assistants

The teaching assistants for this course are Philip Ording (ording@math.columbia.edu) and Cristina Caputo (caputo@math.columbia.edu). See Barnard Help Room Schedule for their help room hours.

Course materials

Course materials will be posted in Acrobat 4 PDF format (PDF 1.3). Your browser can be trained to automatically open these files with Acrobat Reader, a free program which you can download from (If you have trouble reading or downloading these files, check to see if you're using an outdated version of Acrobat, and upgrade to the latest version, or try using a different computer.)

First assignment: Work the practice first midterms from last year.

Midterm 2 will be modeled after previous year's midterms, with the addition of one question on the computation of linking numbers. The final will consist of questions on 3-colorability, and questions on computing Kauffman and Jones polynomials. Students who master the following practice materials will be in great shape: Update: Sign errors were brought to my attention in Kauffman 03 and 11, and have been fixed. Bonus points were awarded, as promised.

Course materials from previous semesters

This course has been taught before; you can find practice materials on the web pages from previous semesters:

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