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homework 1, due 1/8/2004:
-  Email me your preferred e-mail address today.
-  Download and carefully read preface and chapter 1 of text:  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Vijay.Vazirani/preface.ps.  Make notes about what you don't understand, and what exercises you think  you could or could not do. Schedule 1/2-hour meeting with me  wednesday, thursday, or friday (in groups of 1-3 people) to go over these notes.
-  optional "challenge" problem: Read Johnson's 1973  paper on Approximation Algorithms. (Handed out in class.)  Write a summary of the results (not the proofs) and send it to me.   # optional "challenge" problem: Pick one of the proofs  in the paper, understand it, write an explanation in your own words,  and send it to me.