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Homework

Grades

HW07

• Reading: C. Bender, Mathematical Physics 01, Mathematica: Introduction to Differential Equation Solving

• Problem set: pdf, [137K], last updated April 22, 2015

HW06

• Video: C. Bender, Mathematical Physics 01, Introduction to the course (ca 90s)

• Problem set: pdf, [160K], last updated April 16, 2015

HW05

• Problem set: pdf, [107K], last updated March 30, 2015

HW04

• Reading: Mathematica tutorial: Simplification

• Reading: Mathematica tutorial: Numerical calculations

• Problem set: pdf, [ 85K], last updated February 24, 2015

HW03

• Reading: Mathematica tutorial: Integration

• Reading: Mathematica tutorial: Power series expansions

• Problem set: pdf, [128K], last updated February 12, 2015

HW02

• Reading: 2014 MIT Integration Bee

• Problem set: pdf, [118K], last updated February 04, 2015

HW01

• Reading: Sanjoy Mahajan, "Street-Fighting Mathematics", Sec. 5.2.2, pp.80-82, Low entropy expressions

• Reading: Eugene Wigner, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

• Video: R. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, Lecture 2, The relation of Mathematics and Physics

• Reading: R. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Chapters 'A Different Box of Tools', 'Lucky Numbers', available online

• Problem set: not this week
• Pre-course Survey