Instructor: Bill Abikoff
Text: Tom Apostol's Advanced Calculus 1, Second Edition
Meeting times: 12 to 12:50 M in MSB 219 and 12:30 to 1:45 TuTh in MSB 411.
Hopefully this semester, the course will have
projects
and additional drill which will complement the class material.
In the past, we lost two weeks to snowstorms.
Most members of the class were in my section last
semester. There are some minor differences in the material
covered in
the two sections.
You might also find it interesting to compare this course with the MIT undergraduate courses on calculus from a theoretical viewpoint. Look at the OpenCourseWare project at MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/index.htm
Their course number is 18.014. They use the same
text
but cover the material extremely quickly. They have a different
notion
of course credit than we do and their course carries
significantly more
credit than ours does.
MIT, Harvard have started a online consortium called EdX, which
is more oriented to students. It is developing day by day. You
might want to
check it out every so often --- if you see anything interesting,
please
report back to all of us. There are at least two other
consortia; they may offer interesting courseware too.
I often follow the questions asked by the class
rather
than my own notes --- so you should try to take good notes and I
encourage you to share them.
My e-mail address is abikoff@math.uconn.edu.
Clicking on the address should give you a pop-up mailer window.
My
homepage is http://www.math.uconn.edu/~abikoff.
My office hours are or soon will be listed here.
I will always be available, as often and as soon as needed, by appointment. e-mail is the most reliable means of contacting me.
Lists of homework assignments, projects and
other
information for students are given as given as hypertext links
below.
The lists are works in progress and will change as the
semester
progresses.
Projects are available here.
New and important is a place where I'll put items as needed.
We're told
that
we're supposed to inform you, most often on this page, that
you
shouldn't be academically naughty. If you're thinking of
doing
something that might be inappropriate, you should first read
the
Student Code of Conduct.