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	'''Read''' sections 5.1, 5.2 and (back to the past!) 2.5 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read.		'''Read''' sections 5.1, 5.2 and (back to the past!) 2.5 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read.

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	'''Read''' sections 5.1, 5.2 and (back to the past!) 2.5 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read.		'''Read''' sections 5.1, 5.2 and (back to the past!) 2.5 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read.

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	'''Read''' ~~all~~ of ~~chapter~~ 4 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read~~. Also, '''preread''' sections 5.1 and 5.2, just to get a feel for the future~~.		'''Read''' sections 5.1, 5.2 and (back to the past!) 2.5 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read.

	'''Solve''' problems 1, 2, 3, 6, ~~<u>22</u> and <u>23</u> on pages 220-222 and problems 9~~, 11, ~~<u>20</u>, <u>21</u>, 22~~ and ~~<u>24</u>~~ on pages ~~228~~-~~230~~ but submit only your solutions of ~~the~~ ~~underlined~~ ~~problems~~. This assignment is due at the tutorials on Thursday ~~November~~ 30.		'''Solve''' problems 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 14 and 17 on pages 256-259 but submit only your solutions of problems 3a, 3b, 11 and 17. This assignment is due at the tutorials on Thursday December 7.

	'''Just for fun.''' A bit of history of determinants, which I learned from [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia] via Michael Dzamba:		'''Just for fun.''' A bit of history of determinants, which I learned from [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia] via Michael Dzamba:

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'''Read''' all of chapter 4 in our textbook. Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read. Also, '''preread''' sections 5.1 and 5.2, just to get a feel for the future.

'''Solve''' problems 1, 2, 3, 6, 22 and 23 on pages 220-222 and problems 9, 11, 20, 21, 22 and 24 on pages 228-230 but submit only your solutions of the underlined problems. This assignment is due at the tutorials on Thursday November 30.

'''Just for fun.''' A bit of history of determinants, which I learned from [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia] via Michael Dzamba:

:Historically, determinants were considered before matrices. Originally, a determinant was defined as a property of a system of linear equations. The determinant "determines" whether the system has a unique solution (which occurs precisely if the determinant is non-zero). In this sense, two-by-two determinants were considered by Cardano at the end of the 16th century and larger ones by Leibniz about 100 years later. Following him Cramer (1750) added to the theory, treating the subject in relation to sets of equations. The recurrent law was first announced by Bezout (1764).

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinant#History Read more here!]