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WELCOME What's New/What's
True May 9th
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 | It's not new, but it's pretty (awesome): e^(pi * i)+1=0. This is called Euler's identity and is arguably the most amazing and beautiful mathematical formula. Find out more about it here or here. More info on the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler can be found here. Last year was the 300th (!) anniversary of his birth. |
| During the Academic Year: Math Department FREE Drop-In Tutoring: See
http://www.math.ucsc.edu/about/dropintutor.html for details. This quarter Drop-in tutoring will start January 14th, and there will be separate locations to go for Math22 and Math 11A and up. |
| Academic Success Workshops: See http://www2.ucsc.edu/csas/ for more details. This is very useful information about effective study skills, test anxiety, note-taking skills etc. Check it out. And it's free! |
| A link for the adventurous Calculus Student: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~tvogel/gallery/gallery.htm |
| Links to dp graph files on curves and surfaces: a) Twisted cubic b) Merry-go-round c) Hypocycloid d) Plane e) Cone f) Sphere g) Cylinder h) Class Example of Tangent plane. i) Helicoid j) Surface area example |
| The first midterm is graded. Exam stats can be found by following the Math 23B link on the left. |
| The applets I used in class can be found
here: a) Jacobian b) Polar coordinates Area applet c) Page with good resources. d) Substitution applet. |
| The Learning Support Services Tutoring program is available to all UCSC students and is generally for small groups (up to 4 people per group). UCSC students are eligible for up to 1 hour per week per course and may sign-up for tutoring using the following address (https://eop-apps.ucsc.edu/OTSS/tutorsignup/) starting on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 10:00 am. Your tutor is Celesse Merkel, cmerkel@ucsc.edu, a math major. |
| It's a good idea to review your second-quarter calculus integration concepts and techniques. |
| If you want to get a head start in this class,
install dpgraph for visualization of surfaces. This will aid you in
understanding the integration problems. For details visit
http://dpgraph.com/ Go here for download:
http://dpgraph.com/graphing-users.html#U and click on UCSC's link. This is
one cool graphing utility for multivariable calculus, and since UCSC paid for
the site license, it's free for your use, at home and on campus. |
| Homework 5 is due Friday, 5/9. It's on 4.1-4.4. Follow the Math 100 link on the left and click on the section on homework for more details. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The graded midterms were returned in class on
Wednesday. If you have any questions but
also particularly if your score is below 60, please see me in office hours.
Solutions to the test will be placed at electronic reserves later today
(Wednesday 5/7). Here are the stats:
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| This is a project I am working on together with a
colleague of mine, Nandini Bhattacharya. This work grew out of our many years
of experience in the trenches of undergraduate mathematics education at UCSC
and other institutions. The project comprehensively addresses the issues
mentioned in the title: Mathematics Preparation (for a subsequent math or science class) Placement (into the appropriate math class) Review (of mathematical concepts for subsequent math or science courses) A successful and effective approach to these issues is crucial for a students' success in their course of study. If you want to know more about what we are up to, follow the link on the left.
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| Links on Global Climate Change: MSRI workshop: http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/432/show_workshop KQED forum: Global Climate Change in Local Context: http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R704111000 IPPC: web site: http://www.ipcc.ch/, The scientific basis: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm ClimatePrediction.Net: http://climateprediction.net/ |
| Two good web sites for info on mathematics are: http://mathforum.org http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ |
| Not doing as well on tests as you expected? Having trouble studying effectively? Check out the improved sections on Study Tips and Test-Taking (with a section on Math & Test Anxiety) under Resources-Help. |
| Trying to keep up with world events? I find http://www.msnbc.com a decent site for quick checks on what's up. For analysis I listen to NPR, PRI, BBC on FM 88.1, 88.5, 88.9, 90.3 and 91.9. The BBC's web site for international news (with live radio) is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml. For those among you that speak german and can use some alternate perspective, a terrific news and analysis site is at http://www.spiegel.de |
| There IS life outside of mathematics...DARTS! |
| And for some levity there are some not so recent pictures of my kids , including a few from our trip to Germany summer '02. Here's a couple more from skiing in February 2004. We went to Germany again summer 2004 and here are some pictures. Time flies, and here are some more recent pictures of my kids playing soccer. |
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