Submitting Homework
For the Fall 2022 semester, I prefer that you write your homework solutions in LaTeX at overleaf.com. Although LaTeX is the preferred method, I will also accept neatly hand-written homework on paper. If you do turn in your homework on paper, be sure to keep it neat and leave room for my comments!
Using LaTeX
LaTeX is a typesetting system with support for high-quality mathematical content. Many of you are probably familiar with it from previous courses. Using LaTeX to create a document is not like using a word processor. Instead, you write a text file that describes the content using the LaTeX input language, and that text has to be processed to produce the typeset output. Although it is a complex system, it is not all that difficult to use, and I will not expect perfection. The main thing to know is that math is typed between dollar signs, as in $ax^2+bx+c$ or between double dollar signs to display the math on a line by itself, as in $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{2^n}$$. You will have models to work from, and documentation is available on line. In particular, you can look at the documentation at overleaf.com, which is pretty good:
https://www.overleaf.com/learn.
I will do one or more demonstrations of using Overleaf in class.
To use overleaf.com, you will need to register for a free account at https://www.overleaf.com/. You do not need a paid account, and you should ignore all of Overleaf's attempts to get you to sign up for one!
Work at overleaf.com is organized into "projects." For each homework assignment, you want to create a new project, containing my LaTeX source code for the assignment. There are two ways to do that: You can create a new project and copy-and-paste my source code into the main file of that project, main.tex. Or you can directly view my Overleaf copy of the project and make a copy of the project in your own account. I will provide links to my source code and to my project for each assignment. For example, for the first week's assignment, the source code is at https://math.hws.edu/eck/math331/f22/hw1.tex and the Overleaf project is at https://www.overleaf.com/read/dtzjmhqsvwsw. (To make a copy of the Overleaf project, you must first be logged into your Overleaf account.)
Once you have the LaTeX source code of the assignment in an Overleaf project, you will edit the source code to add your solution to each exercise. You will then need to share the project with me by adding my email address, eck@hws.edu, as a "collaborator" with permission to edit the file. As a collaborator with edit permission, I will be able to add grading comments to the document. For exercises where you are allowed to submit a second attempt, you can just add your new work to the same document.