M123 - Sample Course in Mathematics

News | Office Hours | Schedule | Syllabus | Textbook | Homework | Links

Dr. John Sample
123 Weber Building
(970) 491-1234
john.sample@math.colostate.edu

News

Day-to-day notes will be posted here:

• On HW5, problem 3a, you can use the results on products and sums of differentiable functions, as opposed to the definition of the derivative as a limit.
• No office hours Thursday, January 20.
• No office hours just before the midterm; please bring questions to extra office hours on Friday, February 28 from 2-4.

Office Hours

Monday 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Friday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Schedule

Jan 1 - 5	Addition
Jan 7 - 12	Subtraction
Jan 13-31	Division
Feb 1-10	Multiplication
Feb 11-20	Complex Variables
Feb 21-28	Graphing
Mar 1-15	Linear Algebra
Mar 16-31	Computing
April 1-14	Analysis
April 15-30	Complex Analysis
May	Multi-Dimensionality

Syllabus

Please review the course Syllabus (PDF).

Textbook

Differential Equations (2nd edition)
J. Polking, A. Boggess, D. Arnold
Prentice Hall 2005, ISBN 0-13-143738-0
Supplementary Text: J. Polking, D. Arnold: Ordinary Differential Equations using Matlab

Homework

Due Date	Assignment
Jan 12	Subtraction
Jan 13	Division
Feb 1	Multiplication
Feb 11	Complex Variables
Feb 21	Graphing
Mar 1	Linear Algebra
Mar 16	Computing
April 1	Analysis
April 15	Complex Analysis
May 1	Multi-Dimensionality

Useful Links

As the semester progresses, this will be a growing list of resources.

• Answers to homework fourteen.
• Last year's final.
• Corrected version of theorem from class, October 27.
• Mumford's explanation of the complex exponential function.
• The derivation of the chain rule went a little quickly in class.
• An exponential applet.
• Neat resources on visual complex analysis.