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• Week 11: 11/17 - 11/19: Note final midterm will be a 24 hour take-home to be done b/w Thursday, November 19 and Sunday, November 29.
  • Read: notes on generating functions (Sections 1.3 and 1.4).
  • Beamer slides of lecture 19 (11/17/09) and slides of lecture 20 (11/19/09).
  • Read: notes on sums of Poisson random variables; pages 221 to 225 from my book (An Invitation to Modern Number Theory)
  • Benford's law
    • Talks on Benford Law: Talk involving products    Talk involving chains
    • Papers on Benford's Law: L-functions and 3x+1    Products and the Mod 1 CLT      Chains        Chapter 9 of my book
  • Homework: Prepare for the midterm, start working on HW due Thursday, December 4th
  • Suggested Problems: Review suggested problems from throughout the semester.
• Week 12: 11/24 - 11/26: Note final midterm will be a 24 hour take-home to be done b/w Thursday, November 19 and Sunday, November 29.
  • Read: Benford's law: (you don't need to read all of this; I just want to assemble all the information in one place)
    • Talks on Benford Law: Talk involving products    Talk involving chains
    • Papers on Benford's Law: L-functions and 3x+1    Products and the Mod 1 CLT      Chains        Chapter 9 of my book
  • Read: MSTD (more sums than differences) Sets: (you don't need to read all of this; I just want to assemble all the information in one place)
    • Talk on MSTD sets: When almost all sets are difference dominated
    • Papers on MSTD sets: When almost all sets are difference domianted        Constructing MSTD sets
  • Beamer slides of lecture 21 (11/10/09)
  • Homework: HW due Thursday, December 3rd. (though you may submit by 10am Friday the 4th without penalty)
  • Suggested Problems: Review suggested problems from throughout the semester.
• all the course notes
• additional comments from the lectures, LaTeX / Mathematica template, homework problem template.