Homework for Class 1

Of course, you may start on the homework during class if you have time!

1. Send the instructor email stating your name, your favorite area of mathematics, and your hobbies.
2. Use Maple to evaluate the integral that is given in LaTeX code by $\int_0^\infty \frac{dx}{1+x^2}$. (You are supposed to recall from calculus that the answer is $\pi/2$.) Can you get Maple to give both the exact answer and a decimal value? Can you get thirty decimal place accuracy? Print hard copy of your Maple session (remember to put your name on it!) and turn it in at the beginning of next class.
3. Write a short (one or two pages) paper in LaTeX, addressed to a high school audience, on the topic ``Why study mathematics?'' Turn in the formatted copy at the beginning of next class.

Comments to Harold P. Boas.
Created Sep 2, 1996. Last modified Sep 2, 1996.