The course is over! Thanks to everyone for a great semester.
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
- The final exam will be Monday, May 7, from 12:30 to 2:30, in HL 107.
- Old 296 final exams are available from the Library web page.
- 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