LECTURES:

• Instructor: Alex Usvyatsov.
• E-mail: alexus at math.ucla.edu.
• Office: MS 7336
• Class meets:
  • Lecture:
    MWF, 1:00 pm -1:50 pm in Haines 39.
• Office hours:
  • Mondays, 3:30pm - 4:30pm.
  • Wednesdays, 2:30pm - 3:30pm.

TEXTBOOKS:

• [1] R. Brown, and B. Brown, Essentials of Finite Mathematics: Matrices, Linear Programming, Probability, Markov Chains, Ardsley House.

GENERAL INFO:

• Course Outline and Syllabus
• There will be one midterm and a final exam.
• Each student must take and pass the final exam in order to pass the course.
• There will be HW assingments (approximately every other week) and several quizzes at discussion sessions throughout the quarter.
• Your final grade (assuming you have scored at least 20% on the final exam) will be calculated as follows:
  • Homework: 20 %
  • Quizzes: 10 %
  • Midterm: 30 %
  • Final Exam: 40 %
• Your final grade (assuming you have not taken the final or scored under 20%) will be an "F".
• If your grade for the final exam is higher than the midterm score, the final will be worth 70% and the midterm will not count.

MIDTERM SCHEDULE:

• Monday, 2/12/07 during regular class hours

HOMEWORK AND QUIZ POLICY:

• Homework is due the discussion sessions. No late homework will be accepted.
• The reader will grade a selected number of problems. Graded homeworks will be returned to you at the discussion session.
• You may discuss the homework problems with your classmates but each student must write out his/her solutions individually. The solutions should be easily readable and comprehensible.
• 20% of the final grade will be based on the average of your homework grades. One lowest homework score will be dropped. An unsubmitted homework (or submitted after the deadline) will be marked as 0.
• There will be short quizzes at the beginning of several discussion sessions throughout the quarter. The TA will announce at each discussion session whether or not there will be a quizz the week after. The quizzes will contain questions similar (but not necessarily identical) to HW problems which have already been submitted.
• Quizzes will be marked with a grade and returned to you at the discussion sessions. 10% of your final grade will be based on the average of your quizzes grades. One lowest quiz score will be dropped. A student who misses a quiz will get 0. There will be no make-up quizzes.