Week 9

I was made aware of the fact that in question 4 of Problem Sheet 3, it should be added that the circle map is considered to be orientation preserving. Also the expression for the rotation number was obviously erroneous. I have amended the problem sheet accordingly.

I have also posted the Advanced Coursework for M4/MSc. Hand in deadline is Jan 21, noon. Please consult the attached notes (only one supplied at the moment; the other follow early next week). You are not required to use those, but I thought it may help to give you somewhere to get started.

Week 8

I have posted the answers to the assessed coursework of Problem Sheet 1. I have also handed out Problem Sheet 3, with hand-in deadline of Monday 3 Dec.

Week 6

I handed out Example Sheet nr 2. Please note that the hand-in deadline is monday 19 Nov, noon.

One of you has asked me about homework solutions. I have decided the following:

• all solutions for the assessed questions will appear on this website
• I will be happy to receive from you SERIOUS ATTEMPTS (nearly perfect answers) for all other homework questions. Once I receive such, I will post a model answers on this website. Deadline for submission of answers to non-assessed homework questions will be February 1, 2008.
  

For some of the ambitious ones among you this may be an excellent way to master the course material. Alternatively, you could also coordinate to divide the work load. Good luck!

Week 5

Unfortunately there were a few typos in question 8 of the first exercise sheet, which is part of the assesed coursework. I have now corrected this on the problem sheet that you can download on these pages.

I got a few questions from students about whether a certain kind of answers for the assessed coursework would be "acceptable". Let me assure you here that I am not looking for any specific type of answers. The problems are meant to help you think about the course material (and I will be looking in your answers in signs for this) and not to train you to routinely produce certain specific types of "correct answers".

If you found that you learned something about the course from doing the assessed coursework, I hope it will illustrate you the use of doing exercises to better understand things, and that this will motivate you to try doing the other problems as well... good luck! Also, in the books I recommended earlier you can find additional exercises.