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Section 001 (Bayer)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:10am-10:25am
207 Mathematics Building


Dave Bayer (x42643, 426 Mathematics, www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer)
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Text: The following text is optional, but is highly recommended. Of the various knot theory books I own, this is the one I turn to in planning how to teach this course. It is more advanced than our course, but aimed at a general audience and very readable. If you really enjoy this stuff, you may find you keep reading after the semester is over. (I truly can't imagine saying that about any other text I've taught from in recent years!)

Exams: There will be two exams (30 points each) and a final (40 points).
Retest: For students not happy with their grade on the first midterm, there will be a retest in class. Other students are excused from class that day. The retest will consist of variations of questions 1-4 from the first midterm. Your new score on these questions will be the average of your scores on both exams, if you choose to take the retest.
These dates do not coincide with any religious holiday which causes suspension of New York City's alternate side parking regulations; see NYC Parking Calendar. See also bnaibrith.org/caln.html. Please discuss other conflicts with me well in advance of the exam in question.

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Course materials: Course materials will be posted in Acrobat PDF format. Your browser can be trained to automatically open these files with Acrobat Reader, a free program which you can download from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html.
Note: The posted midterms and answers are hundreds of pages each. Don't indiscriminately print these entire files; choose deliberately which pages to print from each file, matching exams with answers by their letter codes.