The course is over! Thanks to everyone for a great semester.

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Basic Info

Instructor

Prof. Graham Leuschke

Contact

email: gjleusch@math.syr.edu
AIM: leuschkeg
Yahoo!: graham_leuschke

Time & Place

MWF 10:35—11:30, Carnegie 306

Recitation

Ashley Prater, 103C Archbold
T 9:30—10:50 in Carnegie 114

Office Hours

Tu&Th 10—11:30 and Wed 2:30—4; by appointment; and any time my door is open (206C Carnegie)

Important documents

syllabus for all sections with Tuesday recitations (including assigned problems)
supplement to the syllabus for my section
first homework assignment (for my section only!)

Announcements

1. The final exam will be Monday, May 7, from 12:30 to 2:30, in HL 107.
2. Old 296 final exams are available from the Library web page.
3. Here are the handouts from class on April 13: the Series Convergence/Divergence Flow Chart and 36 practice series

Calculus Links

(reverse-chronological, blog-stizzy)

• Π is Wrong!
• Impossible Stack ZOMG IT’S BLACK MAGIC (also known as the harmonic series diverging)
• Leonhard Euler was the one who first proved that Σ(1/n²) = ²/6. Until he did, computing its exact value was known (for nearly 100 years) as the Basel Problem
• the harmonic series gets its name from the musical connection with harmony.
• the harmonic series diverges again and again (pdf)
• java applet for graphing sequences and their sequences of partial sums
• What the hell is the Fibonacci Sequence?
• Medical researcher ‘invents’ integration, gets 75 citations
• graphing polar equations
• Famous Curves and animated demonstrations (ever get Freeth’s Nephroid in your Conchoid of de Sluze?)
• parametric curve applet
• US population reached 300 million on Tuesday Oct 17 of last year!
• a little bit about differential equations, including exponential growth/decay.
• Archimedes of Syracuse
• approximating arc length by line segments
• a help page for partial fractions
• another page about partial fractions
• tutorial on trig substitutions
• practice problems for integration by substitution
• nice animated demos of the method of shells and the other methods we’ve discussed
• animated surface of revolution and washers giving the volume
• a whole bunch of examples of volumes of solids of revolution with the washer method
• finding volumes of solids of revolution
• YouTube - World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion

Misc. Links

• Do you have a facebook?
• Some of what mathematicians do (PDF)
• Mathematician of the Day
• the most common errors in undergraduate math (I don’t agree with all of this, but it’s interesting.)
• Paul Dawkins’ notes on How to Study Math, including Studying For Exams, Taking Exams, and Learning From Your Errors.
• Syracuse Math Department