THE CLASS FORMERLY KNOWN AS

Mathematics 401, Fall, 1998

SKIP PAST THE ANNOUNCEMENTS if you so desire.

Course procedures and announcements:

• Dec. 4: The final review session will be WEDNESDAY 12/9 at 7:30 p.m. in Blocker 624. Also, I expect to be in my office on Thursday 12/10 from 11:30 to 1:00. I expect to be able to return all your remaining homework papers at either of those times.
• Dec. 1: All three test keys are now for sale at Notes-n-Quotes.
• Nov. 30: YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BECOME A PUMPKIN! Student CalcLab accounts will be destroyed on Friday, 18 December. Open hours end Monday, 7 December, at midnight (after which CIS labs will still be available).
• Nov. 4: URGENT!! ARE YOU HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE REPORT PROGRAM? Read here!
• Nov. 2: Here is an expository talk on boundary element methods that some of you might be interested in. (It is this Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 4:00 p.m. in Blocker 503.)
• Oct. 25: Something long overdue: I really want to encourage and help you to put your work on the Web, and to read what others have put there, and also to discuss mathematics with specificity in e-mail and your reviews and reports. I have compiled some links that may be useful. (More useful would be for the state of the technology to advance so that the process becomes easy and natural for all concerned. That is happening slowly.)
  • Information on the Web about putting math on the Web. I urge all of you to read at least the first item (the one from Swarthmore). The later items become increasingly technical, and often refer to "solutions" that are not useful to us now because not every reader has the necessary software. The whole page will be of interest to those who might be interested in helping develop the higher education of the future.
  • Information about DVI viewers. If you are unable to read the excellent homework papers of TeX users such as David Robertson (M. 311, f96) and Andrew Barkley (M. 311, f98), you should read this!
  • On-line introductions to TeX. If you want to learn to use TeX yourself, here is free documentation!
• Oct. 10: The next help session will be WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14. After that, help sessions will be on Thursday (until Thanksgiving).
• Oct. 2: For the immediate future, one copy of your report is likely to be returned to you by the e-mail system as undeliverable. Don't panic -- I will get the second copy.
• Sept. 10: There will be no help session next week (when I am out of the country). The next help session (after tonight) will be WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23.
• Sept. 10: The mathematics department has openings for suitably qualified student workers to work in the departmental help sessions for freshman level courses. The pay rate has been increased to 7$ per hour. Application forms are available in BLOC 623.
• Sept. 8: Special instructions for Week 3
• Sept. 8: The normal time for weekly help sessions will be Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. There will be exceptional weeks, however; stay tuned for announcements. The place will be Blocker 624.
• Sept. 8: Class notes (required), old tests, and old homework solutions are now available at Notes-N-Quotes.
• Class notes for the first week or so: (removed 10/8 to save disk space)
  • .pdf file (Acrobat)
  • .ps file (Ghostview)
• Course handout (syllabus): PDF or PS._._. And here is the handout from MATH 311 with more information about how to write homework reviews: PDF or PS
• Instructions for the Homework Review Generator
• Evans Harrell and James Herod, Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics

Homework by weeks:

(Assignments to individuals were not Web-posted this year, but the links are here for possible future use.)

1. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
2. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
3. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
4. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
   • Test A answer key (DVI) (PS)(PDF)
5. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
6. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
7. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
8. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
   • Test B answer key (DVI) (PS)(PDF)
9. PDF or PS
   • assignment
   • solutions and reports
10. PDF or PS
    • assignment
    • solutions and reports
11. PDF or PS
    • assignment
    • solutions and reports
12. PDF or PS
    • assignment
    • solutions and reports
    • Test C answer key (DVI) (PS)(PDF)
13. PDF or PS
    • assignment
    • solutions and reports
14. PDF or PS
    • assignment
    • solutions and reports would be here if we had another week.
    • Final exam answer key (DVI) (PS)(PDF)

Go to home pages: Fulling ._._. Calclab ._._. Math Dept ._._. University

e-mail: fulling@math.tamu.edu

Last modified Fri 26 Jan 01