<FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Some Reading Guides to "Geometry (2nd edition)" by Brannan et al, and Homework Assignments </FONT>

Some Reading Guides to "Geometry (2nd edition)" by Brannan et al, and Homework Assignments


The explanations in the text are fairly detailed. So you are expected to study the text on your own, before and after the lectures. I will only have time to discuss the more difficult and subtle aspects of the theory; you should read the explanations and examples to fill in details not carefully discussed in class. If you find places that need clarification, please raise these points to me either in or before class. This way, our discussion in the lecture time will be more focused.

The problems to be assigned are grouped into recommended and required. The recommended problems are scattered in the body of the text in each section, and have complete solutions in the back of the text, so will not be collected---but you should try to work out these problems on your own without consulting the solutions; you may be fooled into thinking that you understand the solutions easily by just reading through the solutions, yet may retain very little of the ideas and techniques behind the solutions unless you work through the problems on your own and learn from the mistakes and setbacks. The required ones are listed in the last section at the end of each chapter, labeled as Exercises, and are collected for grading. The exams will have problems similar to both the recommended and required ones.