Problem Sets will be due on Mondays and Fridays and will be posted to the course webpage. The Problem Sets will consist of computational exercises and short explanatory problems.

Written Assignments will be due on Wednesdays. These problems either are more conceptually based or require explanation above and beyond those of routine exercises. Your solutions should consist of careful explanations written in complete sentences (augmented by mathematical symbolism where appropriate). These assignments will involve more challenging conceptual problems and eventually will include detailed and rigorous mathematical proofs. A major goal of these problems is to teach the fundamentals of mathematical language and mathematical inferences. As a result, they will be graded at a high standard which involves much more than getting the "correct answer".

You must cite other books or online sources if you use them to help solve a problem. If you enjoy working in groups, I encourage you to work with others in the class to solve the homework problems, but you must write on your homework the names of those with whom you worked. If you work with others, your homework must be written up independently in your own words. You can not write a communal solution and all copy it down. You can not read one person's solution and alter it slightly in notation/exposition. Discussing ideas and/or writing parts of computations together on whiteboards or scratch paper is perfectly fine, but you need to take those ideas and write the problem up on your own.

Unless you have a serious emergency which you bring to my attention before a homework assignment is due, late homework will not be accepted. However, please feel free to take advantage of the fact that several assignments scores are dropped to skip writing up a homework assignment if you have more pressing demands on your time.