Below follows the problem set for a voluntary term paper.


* Formalities:
- Voluntary.
- This assignment has no formal status whatsoever.
- Handing in or not will not affect any course grade.
- If handed in, the quality of the paper will not affect any course grade.
- Rules for compulsory assignments do not apply.


* The purposes of the term paper, include 
- to offer you feedback on whether you are doing right or wrong
- to offer you feedback on whether your justifications are sufficient, or possibly if you are wasting time writing unnecessarily long arguments.


* Suggestions:
- do not write a long and pretty paper.  
- rather, allocate three hours -- maybe a bit more, see below -- and try yourself in an exam-like situation. For that purpose: do not even look at the problems before starting the clock.
- submit what you have written.  Do not attempt to touch it up.  However, if there was a part you simply could not do within the time frame, feel free to write a solution to that and include it.
- Please include a front page with only name (unlike formal assignments, which are student-# based!) and course code. _Please_ staple. Properly. Or you might get only a fraction of it back.


* Deadline:
- Please hand in at the Wednedsday 20 lecture.
- Submitted after? I'll have a look at it still, but don't expect timely feedback.


* 3 hours' workload or not?
- The first 4 problems are taken from two exams which had a total of 8 problem.  This indicates that it would be approximately a full exam set. 
- It seems to me though that each of these sets have other problems which usually take a fair bit of time -- that is, the aforementioned 4 problems might not be the easiest half, but might be the shortest half.
- Therefore I included exam problem 113.  In total it is probably a bit above a full exam workload.



* Problem set:

Spring 2008 #3 and #4
Autumn 2008 #3 and #4
Exam problem 113.