Math Prefresher for Political Scientists

August 24 - September 1, 2009

People      Times and Places      Syllabus      Course Materials      Evaluation

If you are planning to attend the course, you MUST register as a participant. If your name does not appear on the "Participants" list below, or if there are any corrections to be made, please e-mail Viridiana Rios as soon as possible. Check back often, as this page will be updated frequently between now and 1 September 2009.

PEOPLE

§         Instructor: Patrick Lam (email: plam@fas)

§         Teaching fellow: Viridiana Rios (e-mail: vrios@fas)

§         Faculty adviser: Gary King (e-mail: king@harvard.edu)

 

§         Participants: Ashley Anderson, Tim Beaumont, Yue Ding,  Hollie Gilman,  Anand Giridharadas,  Shelby Grossman,  Bradley Hinshelwood,  Rita Koganzon,  Daniel Koss, Charles Lesch,  Dilan Olcer, Jennifer Page, Jennifer Pan,  Amanda Pinkston,  Margaret Roberts,  Evann Smith,  Chiara Superti,  Megan Westrum,  Vanessa Williamson,  Joe Paxton, George Ofosu, Edward Amuzu and Nidhi Santen.

 

Note: "@fas" is used here as an abbreviation for "@fas.harvard.edu". To email another "@fas" address from pine, simply type the username in the "To:" line and hit return.

Note: “@gse”  is used here as an abbreviation for “@gse.harvard.edu”. 

 

§         Course mailing list: math-pre@lists.gov.harvard.edu

TIMES AND PLACES

§         The Math Prefresher will be held August 24-September 1 in CGIS Knafel. Tentative 2009 Schedule.

MAP OF CAMPUS

§         Map of Harvard University

SYLLABUS

§         2009 Syllabus

 

ASSIGNMENTS

§          Lecture 1 (Notationd and Functions):

ü       1.1 (row 1: 1 and 2; row 2: 3, and row 3: 2),

ü       1.2

ü       1.4

ü       1.5

ü       1.10

ü       1.25 (1, 2 and 3).

§         Lecture 2 (Calculus I):

ü       5.1

ü       5.3

ü       5.5

ü       6.1 (column 1: 1; column 2: 1 and 5; graph the functions)

§         Lecture 3 (Calculus II):

ü       5.4 (first column)

ü       5.10 (row 1: 2; row 2: 1 and 3; row 3: 1)

ü       5.13: (row 1: 2, row 2: 3)

ü       6.7 - 6.8

§         Lecture 4 (Probability I):

ü       7.1 -  7.2 (in 7.2, solve the first bullet at the end),

ü       7.8 - 7.10 (note that in 7.10 either X or Y can be 3; it is not required that both are 3 at the same time)

ü       7.20 – 7.21

ü       7.15

COURSE MATERIALS

 

§         Mathematics Notes

§         R

§         VNC

§         UNIX and Emacs

§         LaTeX

EVALUATION

It is very important for the quality of this course that the instructors receive feedback. Please print this evaluation form, fill it out, and return it to Gary King at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (3rd Floor, CGIS Knafel) or the Graduate Student Coordinator, Thom Wall (1st Floor, CGIS Knafel). Thanks!

SECTION ATTENDANCE

 

The following table contains information about whether you should attend the first or second section. Switching is strongly discouraged.

  

Name

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Monday

Amuzu, Edward

1

1

1

1

1

2

Anderson, Ashley

1

2

2

1

1

1

Beaumont, Tim

1

1

2

1

2

2

Ding, Yue

2

1

1

2

2

2

Gilman, Hollie

2

2

1

2

1

1

Giridharadas, Anand

1

1

1

2

1

2

Grossman, Shelby

1

2

2

1

1

1

Hinshelwood, Bradley

1

1

2

2

1

1

Jenn (MIT)

2

2

2

1

2

1

Koganzon, Rita

2

2

1

1

2

1

Koss, Daniel

1

1

2

2

1

1

Lesch, Charles

1

1

1

2

2

1

Ofosu, George

2

2

1

2

2

1

Olcer, Dilan

2

2

1

1

2

1

Page, Jennifer

2

1

1

2

1

2

Pan, Jennifer

2

1

2

1

1

2

Paxton, Joe

2

2

2

2

2

2

Pinkston, Amanda

1

2

1

1

1

1

Roberts, Margaret

2

2

1

1

2

2

Schnorf, Sebastian

1

2

2

1

2

1

Smith, Evann

1

1

1

2

2

2

Superti, Chiara

2

1

2

2

1

2

Westrum, Megan

1

1

2

1

1

2

Williamson, Vanessa

2

2

2

2

2

2

 

Last modified: 27 August 2009