Friday, January 16
Check back later for homework...
Wednesday, January 14
Today we did this activity in class, introducing the mathematical typesetting software LaTeX. If you don't finish the activity in class, please work through the rest of it outside of class (you can skip #8). Either way, turn in the resulting PDF file (which you can download from Overleaf) on Gradescope by 11:59pm on Friday.
See Monday's entry for the assignment due at 2pm on Friday.
Monday, January 12
We did this activity in class today. We saw that the numbers of tilings are given by Fibonacci numbers, and we briefly discussed why that is the case. Write a mathematical argument demonstrating that this is correct (for all values of n), and submit it on Gradescope by 2pm on Friday. This should probably take you a paragraph or two. Don't stress about the formatting or notation; focus on communicating the ideas clearly, and aim to make it easily readable to your peers. Please also bring a copy, either printed or digital, to class on Friday; we will work in small groups and as a class to refine our writing into a rigorous mathematical proof.
Please bring a laptop to class on Wednesday, since you will be learning how to use LaTeX.
Friday, January 9
We met on Zoom today and discussed the goals of the course.