Math 3333, Spring 2007

Basic Info	Instructor:	Dr. Mark Tomforde
	Office:	601 PGH
	Phone:	713-743-3672
	Office Hours:	MW 2:30PM -- 3:30PM (or by appointment)
	Syllabus:	Download the Syllabus
	Lecture:	MW 1:00PM -- 2:30PM in 516 SR
	ANNOUNCEMENTS:	Here are solutions to the Final Exam.

Exams and Homework

Homework:

Due Monday, Apr. 23
Reading Assignment: The material at the end of the course is not in the book. Read over your class notes.
To Be Handed In: Homework 9
Not To Be Handed In: #32.7, 34.12

Due Monday, Apr. 16
Reading Assignment: Sec. 29, 32, 33, 34
To Be Handed In: Homework 8
Not To Be Handed In: #28.1, 28.7, 29.1

Due Monday, Apr. 9
Reading Assignment: Sec. 25, 26, 28
To Be Handed In: Homework 7
Not To Be Handed In: #24.10, 24.11, 25.3, 25.13

Due Monday, Mar. 26
Reading Assignment: Sec. 23, 24
To Be Handed In: Homework 6
Not To Be Handed In: #19.1, 19.9, 20.1, 23.2, 23.9

Due Monday, Mar. 5
Reading Assignment: Sec. 19, 20
To Be Handed In: Homework 5
Not To Be Handed In: #17.9, 18.2, 18.12

Due Monday, Feb. 26
Reading Assignment: Sec. 18
To Be Handed In: Nothing. Work on Exam 1 instead.
Not To Be Handed In: #15.3, 15.7

Due Monday, Feb. 19
Reading Assignment: Sec. 15, 17
To Be Handed In: Homework 4
Not To Be Handed In: #12.4, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.8, 14.9

Due Monday, Feb. 12
Reading Assignment: Sec. 12, 14
To Be Handed In: Homework 3
Not To Be Handed In: #10.1, 10.4, 10.10, 11.2, 11.4, 11.9(b)

Due Monday, Feb. 5
Reading Assignment: Sec. 10--11
To Be Handed In: Homework 2
Not To Be Handed In: #8.2, 8.3, 9.6, 9.10

Due Monday, Jan. 29
Reading Assignment: Sec. 5--9
To Be Handed In: Homework 1
Not To Be Handed In: #1.6, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Due Monday, Jan. 22
Reading Assignment: Sec. 1--4
To Be Handed In: Nothing.
Not To Be Handed In: #1.1, 3.1.

Exam Dates:
Take-Home Exam 1 -- Wednesday, Feb. 21 at the beginning of class. (Solutions to Exam 1.)
Take-Home Exam 2 -- Wednesday, Apr. 4 at the beginning of class. (Solutions to Exam 2.)
Final Exam -- Monday, May 7 at 2PM. (Solutions to the Final Exam.)

Miscellaneous Resources

It will be important for you to read your textbook in this course. If you are unfamiliar with reading mathematics textbooks, here is a collection of Tips for Reading Your Mathematics Textbook that I have written.

The history of mathematics is an important subject. It gives a context in which to view the results that one learns in math classes. Furthermore it shows that mathematics is, first and foremost, a human activity. By looking at the historical development of Calculus we see that it took a long time for many of its ideas to be rigorized. Like all mathematics, the creation of Calculus was not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but rather a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often got lost and many wrong turns were taken. If you find yourself struggling to understand the concepts introduced in this course, then you are in good company. Many of the greatest minds in mathematics struggled with these same concepts over a period of hundreds of years.

More on the History of Calculus

The Wikipedia entry on Calculus and the Wikipedia entry on Real Analysis.

If you are tired of Calculus, check out this Nova site about one of the greatest achievements of mathematics in the 20th century:

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Also check out some unsolved problems in mathematics

Famous Unsolved Problems in Mathematics
A List of Mathematical Conjectures
The Millennium Prize Problems, each of which carries an award of $1,000,000 to anyone who can solve the problem.

and the various awards that are given to people working towards the solutions of these, and many other, problems in mathematics:

The Fields Medal, often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics
The Abel Prize, established in 2001.

And for something a little lighter, check out Mathematrix, and in particular, Math Comics.

NOTE: If you are interested in obtaining software to do mathematical typesetting (to write up your proofs, for example), come talk to me and I can tell about about LaTeX, a freely available typesetting program used by most mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. (This is what I use to type up homework and exams.) The software is freely available, but depending on what Operating System you use there are various implementations. In addition, there is a slight learning curve when first starting to use the program.

Math 3333, Spring 2007

Basic Info

Exams and Homework

Miscellaneous Resources