Math. 311                                         Spring 1999

                     HOMEWORK SUMMARY REPORT


  Assignment number: 1         
    
  Problem number: 1.4.2  

  Number of papers received: 1  

  Reviewing committee (Greek letter): pi     

  List all participating members: Cervenka, O'Brien, NguyenM



  Author[s] of paper[s] chosen for publication: Julia Pitre from Fall 98        
                                           [and Jorge Ibarra]



  Comments: There was only one paper for this problem and it started out
correctly but the answer ended up in R^2 instead of R^3.  The problem also
asked for a comparison with 1.4.1 which was not included.  The answer from
last semester was a parametric equation and our paper was not. On the
other hand, the paper from last semester was a little hard to understand
at first because she used the letter "p" instead of the symbol for "pi". 
It might be easier to understand if it was re-done in Maple. 

INSTRUCTOR'S COMMENT:  Actually, the main part of this problem does refer
to a curve in R^2.  It is the comparison curve in Ex. 1.4.1 that lives in 
R^3.  I decided to publish the paper, even though it is incomplete,
because of some contrasts with the F98 paper.