Math 141, Spring 2016
Contents
Course information
- See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
- Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. and Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m., in W-1-44.
- Textbook: Gregory Hartman, APEX Calculus, Version 3.0 (see below).
- Instructor: Steven Jackson.
- Office: S-3-82
- Office hours: by appointment.
- E-mail: jackson@math.umb.edu.
- Telephone: (617) 287-6469.
Textbook
The textbook may be downloaded in PDF form, free of charge, using the following links:
(Note that these are the "small" versions. If you want the versions containing interactive graphics - potentially entertaining but not really necessary - or if you wish to obtain all three volumes in one large file, please visit http://www.apexcalculus.com/.)
In addition, inexpensive bound hardcopies are available from Amazon. If you wish to obtain one, please search for "APEX Calculus" and be sure to get Version 3.0. (Please note that while we will be using all three volumes, the bulk of the course material comes from Volume 2.)
Important dates
- Weekly quizzes happen on Tuesdays during the last fifteen minutes of class. The first quiz is on Tuesday, February 2.
- First midterm: Tuesday, March 8.
- Second midterm: Tuesday, April 12.
- Final exam: TBA.
How to use this page
Below you will find links to the weekly assignment pages. Each of these pages is editable by anyone in the class, so apart from telling you what problems to work on they are excellent spaces in which to ask questions. (If you are very shy you may ask your questions privately, either by email or in person. But we will all work more efficiently if you ask them on the wiki, so that each question only needs to be answered once.) It is also extremely helpful to try to answer questions posed by other students. I will monitor these pages to ensure that no wrong answers go uncorrected.
If you are not already familiar with them, you may wish to read about wiki markup and typesetting mathematics. Also, you may wish to add this page and the assignment pages to your watchlist using the link in the upper right corner of each page, then change your preferences to enable e-mail notifications; this way you will know about page activity without constantly re-checking all the pages.
Weekly assignments
- Assignment 1, due Tuesday, February 2.
- Assignment 2, due Tuesday, February 9.
- Assignment 3, due Tuesday, February 16.
- Assignment 4, due Tuesday, February 23.
- Assignment 5, due Tuesday, March 1.
- Assignment 6, due Tuesday, March 8.
- Assignment 7, due Tuesday, March 22.
- Assignment 8, due Tuesday, March 29.
- Assignment 9, due Tuesday, April 5.
- Assignment 10, due Tuesday, April 12.
- Assignment 11, due Tuesday, April 19.
- Assignment 12, due Tuesday, April 26.
- Assignment 13, due Tuesday, May 3.
- Assignment 14, due Thursday, May 10.
