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 Δ (including assigned problems)
supplement to the syllabus for my section Δ
first homework assignment Δ (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 Δ and 36 practice series Δ

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