Math 7
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General Information Syllabus Writing Assignments

Syllabus

The following is a tentative syllabus for the course. This page will be updated as additions or changes are made. Any changes will also be announced in class.


Details about writing assignments will be available on the Writing Assignments page.

Here are the questionnaire and writing assignment from Tuesday, January 4. Here are the problems for Paper 2.


Dates Notes Assignments Due
1/4 First class meeting  
1/6 No class today  
1/7 Not a class day Writing assignment due today: Short paper assigned on Tuesday.
1/11   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part I; Carroll, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles; Rucker, Infinity, Chapter 1.
1/13   Reading assignment due: Moore, Aristotle; Quine, The Ways of Paradox, Part I. Writing assignment due today: Draft of thesis sentence.
1/14 Not a class day Writing assignment due today: Paper 1, first draft.

DUE DATE CHANGED

to 10 AM Saturday 1/15.
1/18   Reading assignment due: Excerpts from Newton.
1/20   Reading assignment due: Berkeley, The Analyst, Editor's Introduction and Part I.
1/21 Not a class day Writing assignment due today: Paper 1, final version.
1/25    
1/27   Reading assignment due: Descartes, Discourse on the Method...
1/28 Not a class day Writing assignment due today at 4 PM: Paper 2, first draft.
2/1   Reading assigment due: Hilbert, On the Infinite, Part I.
2/3   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part II.
2/4 Not a class day Writing assignment due today: Paper 2, final version.
2/8   Reading assignment due: Dauben, Cantor's Philosophy of the Infinite; Hilbert, On the Infinite, Part II.
2/10   Reading assignment due: Quine, The Ways of Paradox, Part II.
2/11 Not a class day Writing assignment due todayat 4 PM: Paper 3, proposal.
2/15   Reading assignment due: Heyting, Disputation.
2/17   Reading assignment due: Moore, Reactions.
2/18 Not a class day Writing assignment due todayat 4 PM: Paper 3, first draft.
2/22   Reading assignment due: Maddy, Realism.
2/24   Reading assignment due: Davis and Hersh, Mathematical Models, Computers and Platonism; Davis and Hersh, Infinity, or The Miraculous Jar of Mathematics.
2/25 Not a class day Writing assignment due today: Paper 3, final version.
3/1   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part III.
3/2 (x-hour)   Reading assignment due: Le Blanc, Infinity in God and Mathematics.
3/3   No class today.
3/4 Not a class day Writing assignment due todayat 4 PM: Paper 4, first draft.
3/6 Last class meeting.  
3/14   Writing assignment due 4 PM: Paper 4, final version.


Marcia J. Groszek
Last updated June 23, 2014 15:20:15 EDT