Email: yac AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu
Office: 1068 Evans Hall
Office Hours: M 2:30 ~ 4:30 W 2:15 ~ 3:15
Instructor's course website: http://math.berkeley.edu/~neu/Math53.html
Your section grade consists of 50% homework and 50% quizzes. The section grade counts for 10% of your final grade. The final grade is calculated with the following formula: (assume that all scores are scaled up to be out of 100)
0.1 * section score + 0.2 * max {M1, M2} + 0.2 * max {M2, Final} + 0.5 * Final
with the following exceptions: if a student miss both midterms, or does not take the final, the student fails the class.
There will be no curve for this class. The grade will be assigned based on the following cutoff:
A 85~90
B 75~80
C 65~70
P/NP 55-60
Note that this is the "cutoff". For example, if you get a final score above 90, you will surely get an A. If you get a score below 85, you will surely get something below A. For scores between 85 and 90, it depends on the class distribution. The professor will be making that decision at the end of the semester.
Homework will always be due on Tuesday. You turn in the 3 assignments given during the previous week.
The professor will assign the problems for the GSI to grade. They will be graded based on efforts. If you make honest attempt on a problem you will get 1. Otherwise you get 0. We add up the scores and that is your score for that assignment (scaled up to be out of100).
Quizzes will be given on Thursday. Generally it will cover the material from the previous week. However there might be exceptions. I will make announcements as soon as I know what the upcoming quiz should cover.
Wed, September 2: There will be a quiz tomorrow, covering 10.1 and 10.2.
Wed, September 9: There will be a quiz tomorrow, covering 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, and 12.2.
Mon, September 14: I will have to end my office hour half hour early today. Email me if you can't make it and need to make an appointment.
Thur, September 17: The quiz today will cover 12.3 and 12.4.
Thur, September 17: Here's the professor's practice midterm. Try to do these problems without looking at the solutions first.
Sat, September 19: Here's a list of proactice problems I put together. They are by no means exhaustive.
Sun, September 20: Here's a list of harder problems I typed up. Don't work on this unless you've mastered everything else you need to know for the midterm.
Tue, September 22: I will have extended office hour/review session today from 6:30 to 8:30 in 31 Evans this evening. For the most part I will just be answering questions.
Wed, September 23: We will have discussion section tomorrow as usual. You will be getting your midterm back. There will not be a quiz.
Mon, October 5: Note the new office hour on the top of the page.
Fri, October 9: It appears that the professor does not want to over-emphasize the epsilon-delta proof. It is still more important to understand the geometric and computational aspect of the subject. If you have extra time, here is the promised practice problems for the epsilon-delta proof.
Thu, October 22: Here's the second practice midterm.
Fri, October 23: Here's a list of review problems I compiled.
Mon, October 26: Office hour for this week: M 2:15 ~ 5:15, Tu 6:30~8:30.
Tue, October 27: Another practice exam I found on some other GSI's page. Only the first problem has the solution though.
Thu, October 29: Midtern 2 distribution.
Mon, November 23: Due to a schedule conflict, I will have to end my office hour early today by 3:20pm. I will be back a little after 5pm.
Fri, December 4: The solution to the quiz 11.
Mon, December 7: I will hold the office hours on Monday and Wednesday this week as usual.
Mon, December 7: Here is the practice final from Prefessor Neu. Try to do the problems by yourself without looking at the solution first.
Sat, December 12: I will hold my office hour on Monday as usual. Wednesday office hour is cancelled. Instead, I will hold extra office hour on Thursday, from 2-5.
