MAA4212 Spring 2012

Current Announcements

  • Friday 4 May. Make-up exams, 12:30-1:30.

  • Friday 4 May. Office hours 11:00-noon.

  • Tuesday 1 May. Office hour 1:00-2:30.

  • Thursday 26 April. Office hour 10:00 - 11:15.

  • Wednesday 25 April. Returned exam III, discussed course grades and the make-up exams.

  • Monday 23 April. Exam III covered Sections 5 and 6.

  • Notes last updated 16 April at 1:50 pm.

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  • Friday 20 April. Reviewed for Exam III.

  • Wednesday 18 April. The implicit function theorem and surfaces.

  • Monday 16 April. Examples and consequences of the implicit function theorem.

  • Friday 13 April. Homework 13 redos
    were due. The implicit function theorem.

  • Wednesday 11 April. Finished the proof of the inverse function theorem and discussed corollary 6.4 and briefly discussed example 6.5. Homework 12 redos were due.

  • Wednesday 11 April. Pi mu epsilon meeting in the atrium at 4:00pm. Election of PME officers followed by a brief talk by James Fairbanks. The positions are President, Treasurer, VP, or Secretary.

    Abstract for PME talk on 4/11

    In the context of RNA folding discrete structures known as matchings arise, and finding substructures in these matchings is of practical importance. I will present a Ramsey-like theorem for matchings

  • Monday 9 April. Homework 13 was due. Continue in Section 6, starting with Proposition 6.1.

  • Friday 6 April. Homework 12 and Homework 11 redos were due. Begin Section 6 on the inverse and implicit function theorems with an overview.

  • Wednesday 4 April. Finished the subsection on optimization.

  • Monday 2 April. Homework 10 redos were due. Section 5.6.

  • Friday 30 March. Homework 11 was due. Section 5.5.
  • Wednesday 28 March. Homework 10 was due. Proposition 5.24 - the chain rule - and an example.

  • Monday 26 March. More of Section 5, from Remark 5.18 through Example 5.23.

  • Friday 23 March. More on the derivative, starting with Proposition 5.12, and ending with Example 5.19.

  • Wednesday 21 March. Exam II covered Sections 3 and 4 in the notes.

  • Monday 19 March. Reviewed for Exam II. There were many good questions.

  • Friday 16 March. Continue with Section 5 from Proposition 5.7 through Proposition 5.11.

  • Wednesday 14 March. Homework 8 were due. Finished Section four and began section five up through definition 5.6.

  • Monday 12 March. Homework 9 was due. More of Section four, up through Example 4.27.

  • Friday 2 March. Problem session. No new material was introduced.

  • Wednesday 29 February. Homework 8 was due. More of Section 4, starting with item 4.22 and ending with Corollary 4.25.

  • Monday 27 February. More of Section 4 starting with Definition 4.16 and ending with Definition 4.21.

  • Friday 24 February. Homework 7 was due. More of Section 4, starting with the proof of Proposition 4.11 and ending with Corollary 4.14.

  • Wednesday 22 February. Homework 6 was due. More of Section 4, starting with Proposition 4.11 and ending with Lemma 4.12. We also discussed Problem 2.12 in detail.

  • Monday 20 February. More of Section 4, starting with Definition 4.5(ii) and ending with Example 4.10.

  • Friday 17 February. Began Section 4 on linear algebra, up through Definition 4.5(i).

  • Wednesday, February 15, 5:00 pm in the Little Hall Atrium, Pi Mu Epsilon Meeting: The Metatalk. Dr. Knudson will be giving a talk on talks. People say mathematicians can't give good talks but Dr. K disagrees and he will let us know how he does it. Everyone will eventually have to give job talks to get hired so you might as well learn how now.

  • Wednesday 15 February. Homework 5 was due. More of Section 3.

  • Monday 13 February. Began Section 3.

  • Friday 10 February. Finished Section 2.

  • Wednesday 8 February. Exam I covered Section 1 (Riemann integrtion) and Section 2 up to and including Subsection 2.6.

  • Monday 6 February. Reviewed for Exam I.

  • Friday 3 February. More of series, starting with Proposition 2.21 and ending with Subsection 2.6.

  • Wednesday 1 February. Continued with series, starting with Theorem 2.13 and ending with Lemma 2.20. Homework 4 redos were due.

  • Monday 30 January. More on series, starting with Definition 2.5 and ending with Theorem 2.12.

  • Friday 27 January. Homework 4 was due. Continued with series starting with Proposition 2.1(c) and ending with Remark 2.4.

  • Wednesday 25 January. Homework 3 was due. Discussed the first two homework problems. Began series.

  • Monday 23 January. Finished Riemann integration, convering Section 1.5 in the notes.

  • Friday 20 January. Homework 2 was due. More on Riemann integration starting with Example 1.24 and ending with Corollary 1.26.

  • Wednesday 18 January. Homework 1 was due. More on Riemann integration, starting with Proposition 1.19 and ending with Corollary 1.24.

  • Monday 16 January. ML King holiday.

  • Friday 13 January. More on Riemann integration, starting with Theorem 1.12 and ending with Remark 1.18.

  • Wednesday 11 January. Continued with Riemann integration, starting with Corollary 1.8 and ending with Proposition 1.11.

  • Monday 9 January. Began Riemann integration up through Proposition 1.7.