Math Prefresher for Political Scientists

4 - 14 September 2007

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 Jen Katkin as soon as possible. Check back often, as this page will be updated frequently between now and 14 September 2007.

PEOPLE

§         Instructor: Ellie Powell (e-mail: enpowell@fas)

§         Teaching fellow: Jen Katkin (e-mail: jkatkin@fas)

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

 

§         Participants: Zachary Barter (zbarter@fas), Oliver Bevan (bevan@fas), Jon Bischof (jbischof@fas), Colin Brown (brown4@fas), Jonathan Bruno (jbruno@fas), Brett Carter (blcarter@fas), Sheena Chestnut (chestnut@fas), Jacob Eisler (jeisler@fas), Rachel Friedman (rzfriedm@fas), Brad Holland (bholland@fas), Serene Hung (shung@fas), Shashank Joshi (joshi@fas), Catherine Kelly (clkelly@fas), Didi Kuo (jdkuo@fas), Katie Levine (klevine@fas), Marcy McCullaugh (mmccull@berkeley.edu), Yascha Mounk (mounk@fas), Rich Nielsen (rnielsen@fas), Melodie Chika Ogawa (ogawa@fas), Sean Parker (sean.parker@yahoo.com), Mircea Popa (mpopa@fas), Viridiana Rios (vrios@fas), Shahrzad Sabet (ssabet@fas), Emma Saunders-Hastings (esaunder@fas), John Sheffield (jsheff@fas), Jennifer Steele (steeleje@gse), Andrea Tivig (tivig@fas), Jane Vaynman (jvaynman@fas), Joseph Williams (william5@fas), Bernardo Zacka (bzacka@fas)

 

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

TIMES AND PLACES

§         The Math Prefresher will be held September 4-14 in CGIS North. Please follow the link for a more detailed schedule: Math Prefresher Schedule.

MAP OF CAMPUS

§         Map of Harvard University

SYLLABUS

§         2007 Syllabus, pdf file.

 

ASSIGNMENTS

§         Lecture 1 (Notation and Functions): Exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.7, 1.9, 1.15, 1.18, 1.21, 1.25

§         Lecture 2 (Calculus I): Exercises 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5 (left column), 5.8 (c, d, g, h), 6.1 (a, b, c, d)

§         Lecture 3 (Probability I): Exercises 7.2, 7.3, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.15, 7.18, 7.23

§         Lecture 4 (Probability II): Exercises 8.2, 8.5, 8.9, 8.18, 8.22, 8.24

§         Lecture 5 (Linear Algebra I): Exercises 3.1 (dot products only), 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 4.19 (using Gaussian or Gauss-Jordan elimination)

§         Lecture 6 (Linear Algebra II): Exercises 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.19 (using matrix inversion), 4.25

§         Lecture 8 (Calculus II): Exercises 6.7, 6.8, 5.10, 5.11, 5.13 (b, d, f)

 

 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 North) or the Graduate Student Coordinator, Thom Wall (1st Floor, CGIS North). Thanks!

Last modified: 4 September 2007