Schedule for SCH102
Spring 2019

Week Topic
1/28 Introduction: What are numbers?
2/4 Natural numbers, Peano axioms The Peano Axioms for the Natural numbers
2/11 Arithmetic in N Other properties of N and +: Associative, Transitive Order. See here for details.
2/18 equivalence relations, integers as pairs of naturals
2/25 integers, fractions, rationals
3/4 real numbers, algebraic numbers, cardinality
3/11 complex numbers
3/18
Spring Break
(probably not like this)
3/25 Student Presentations:
Tiffany, Sonya, and Vivian: The Golden Ratio
Edwin, Swaja, and Jacob: Quaternions
Lily and Samy: Amicable Numbers
4/1 Student Presentations:
Arudra and Michael: Infinitesimals
John, Jolee, and Weiting: Babylonian Number Systems
4/8 Student Presentations:
Charlie and Elvis: The Mayan Number System
Ian and Joseph: Postulates for Euclidean Geometry

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