Math/CCS: Problem-Solving
Course Information:
- Professor: Padraic Bartlett.
- Email: padraic at math dot ucsb dot edu.
- Syllabus: linked here.
Homework:
- Problem set 1: Introduction / Russian problems.
- Problem set 2: Induction problems.
- Problem set 3: More induction problems.
- Problem set 4: Extremal problems.
- Problem set 5: Invariance problems.
- Problem set 6: Polynomials.
- Problem set 7: Inequality.
- Problem set 8: Operations on sets.
- Problem set 9: Basic number theory.
- Problem set 10: Infinite descent.
- Problem set 11: More number theory.
- Problem set 12: Sequences.
- Problem set 13: Covering spaces.
- Problem set 14: Geometry.
- Problem set 15: Probability (extra-credit!)
- Problem set 16: More probability.
- Problem set 17: Putnam problems.
- Problem set 18: The 2014 Putnam exam.