SUNY Geneseo Department of Mathematics
Math 239 01
Spring 2017
Prof. Doug Baldwin
Last modified August 11, 2017
These are electronic records of class discussion from Math 239 01 (Introduction to Mathematical Proof). They are generally captured as a class unfolds, and slightly cleaned up afterwards. They are not clean, carefully-planned lecture notes in the usual sense. They are more an electronic equivalent of notes on the blackboard: they record some of what the instructor said, some of what students said, the things that really happened in the class—including the misunderstandings, false starts, and similar things that happen in real classes. The goal of these notes is as much to help students remember how they learned as it is to help them remember what they learned (because the “how” of learning is at least as important as the “what”).
Please make WWW or other electronic links to this page only—I want people reading these notes to see the “caveat” above.
Send comments, questions, etc. related to these notes to Doug Baldwin.