"CS 374": Coursework


Homeworks and solutions

All homeworks are due Tuesday at midnight, uploaded to Moodle. We will post each week's homework at least one week before the due date on Moodle; we will post solutions at most three days after the due date. Don't forget to read the homework policies! All solutions will be posted on Moodle.

Exams

Midterm 1 Information (Syllabus)

Monday February 22, 7-8:30pm. Students with last names beginning with A through H (inclusive) take their exam in LMS 141, students with last names beginning with I through L (inclusive) take their exam in LMS 151, and the remaining students take the exam in ECE 1002 (usual lecture room).

Midterm 2 Information (Syllabus)

Monday April 4, 7-8:30pm. Students with last names beginning with A through L (inclusive) take their exam in ECE 1002 (usual lecture room), students with last names beginning with M through T (inclusive) take their exam in Siebel 1404, and the remaining students take their exam in DCL 1320.

Final Exam Information

Monday May 9, 8-11am. Students with last names beginning with A through D (inclusive) take their exam in Transportation Building 103, students with last names beginning with E through Q (inclusive) take their exam in ECE 1002 (usual lecture room), and the remaining students (last names R through Z) take their exam in Material Sciences Building 100.


The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seek the simple solution.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (c. 1890)
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle. Because of this, I do not know why even questions which bear so little relationship to mathematics are solved more quickly by mathematicians than by others.
—Leonhard Euler, describing the Königsburg bridge problem
in a letter to Carl Leonhard Gottlieb Ehler, April 3, 1736