MAT 21B - CALCULUS

Winter Quarter 2001

MWF 9:00 - 9:50

Instructor: Motohico Mulase

Office: 674 Kerr

Phone: Please call the Undergraduate Office at 752-8130

The Course Grade

Notes:

1. The grades are posted according to the increasing order of the last 5 digits of your student ID numbers. Initial 0s are omitted. Thus 123-20-0123 will appear simply as 123. Use the "find" command of your browser with your truncated ID number to see your grades. The list is not in the alphabetical order!

2. Your total score is calculated according to the weight factors published in the syllabus below.

3. The homework scores are adjusted so that each homework carries 20 maximum points.

4. If you are officially excused from a midterm, then "x" appears on your row. The missing score does not affect your total course grade.

5. If you find a recording error, please contact me as soon as possible.

 

Have a nice Spring Quarter!

 

Syllabus



Homework Assignments for Submission.

Graded homework papers will be returned in homework boxes located at the north side of Wellman Hall (basement) according to your section numbers. Each section has its own homework box.

 

Although you submit solutions to only three to four problems, you are supposed to solve all problems listed at the end of the Syllabus for your practice.


Practice tests and exam solutions:

The Final Exam with Solution

Practice Midterm 1

First Midterm with Solution

Practice Midterm 2

Second Midterm with Solution (372K)

Practice Midterm 3

Third Midterm with Solution

Practice Final Exam

Note: You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files.



List of Discussion Sections and Teaching Assistants


Guest Lecture Series:

 

1. Professor Sherman Stein, January 29, 2001.

Pictures from Professor Stein's talk (The text of his talk will be published in a mathematical journal later this year.)

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and the author of your calculus textbood will give us a guest lecture titled Archimedes.

The materials discussed in Professor Stein's lecture will be covered in the second midterm examination.

2. Professor William P. Thurston, February 21, 2001.

Professor Thurston is a greatest geometer of our time. His contributions to foliations and 3-manifold geometry form one of the highest mathematical achievements of the 20th century.

The numerous honors Professor Thurston has received include 1982 Fields Medal (the most prestigious award in mathematics and widely recognized as a Nobel Prize equivalent of mathematics), Election to the National Academy of Sciences, and American Mathematical Society Oswald Veblen Prize. He was Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley before joining the Davis faculty. The topics of his talk will be geometry and differential calculus.