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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.
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