- Our Final Exam will be at 5:15pm on Thursday, May 16 in our classroom. Bring your laptops. You will be asked to do as many proofs correctly as you can in two hours. I will email you with any additional details. Game on!
Math 299: Introduction to Mathematical Proof
Final Exam – Thursday, May 16, 2024, 5:15pm
Course Handouts
Lecture Notes – the latest lecture notes from previous instances of our course. May be revised frequently.
- Course Syllabus – our course syllabus
Mathematical Writing and Typesetting
Overleaf
Homework Template (Article style)
Click this link to start a new assignment (then copy the project in your list of Overleaf projects to make your own copy from my read-only original).
- Sample Document – an example document using the homework assignment style above.
- Homework
Template (Handout style)
Click this link to start a new assignment that is formatted more like a typical LaTeX article (then copy the project in your list of Overleaf projects to make your own copy from my read-only original). - Overleaf – a free website where you can easily produce LaTeX math documents through a web browser
LaTeX
- LaTeX Cheat Sheet – a quick reference that can be printed on one sheet of paper
(posted by winston at stdout.org)
- Detexify – a quick way to look up the name of a math symbol in \LaTeX by drawing it by hand.
LaTeX for laptops
- LyX – a free math word processor based on LaTeX
- MikTeX – install this and TeXnicCenter for LaTeX on your Windows computer
- TeXnicCenter – install this and MikTeX for LaTeX on your Windows computer
- MacTeX – Install this for LaTeX on your Mac computer
Math 299 Online
- Math 299 Online Classroom Our home away from home if we can’t meet in person for some reason. Click here to enter our Zoom classroom.
- Zoom help – Zoom for Scranton students, how to install, how to use, documentation.
Lurch!!
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Lurch is a math word processor that can check your proofs!
- Quick Start Guide
- Topics – each one opens a blank document containing its rules and those from the topics above it.
- Math 299 Lurch – opens a blank document with all of the rules from the topics listed above available.
- Equations and Logic Only – a smaller library not containing Peano axioms or Number Theory.
- Examples – a few proofs done in Lurch using the topics defined above.
- Lurch Syntax – a quick reference showing how to type various math expressions in Lurch
- Lurch Desktop App – the original desktop version of Lurch. It is being replaced by the web version above, but still has some features that haven’t been duplicated.
Toy Proof Software
- Toy Proofs – a “toy” proof system I developed to introduce students to the concept of formal proofs.
- Circle Dot Game – describing the definitions behind the game.
- Toy Proof Talk Slides – slides from a talk I gave on Toy Proofs at the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings
- Scrambling Ice Cream – a word problem based on a variant of the Toy Proof system, Scrambler!.
- Lurch App – a math word processor that can check your proofs! I designed and wrote this software with former Scranton math major Nathan Carter specifically with this course in mind.