Dr Vancliff's Fall 2008 Teaching Page at UTA

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• Honr/Math 1426   Honors Calculus I
• Math 5392   Introduction to Lie Algebras

Honr/Math 1426: Honors Calculus I
        Handouts & worksheets will be distributed in class on the relevant dates.

• Instructor's office hours: Mon & Wed 4:30-5:20 pm in PKH 462, or by appointment.
  GTA's office hours: Mon & Wed 1:00-1:50 pm in PKH 486, or by appointment.
• 1st-day handout (pdf file) (revised 8 pm Aug 29, 2008)
• Homework. Make sure you are viewing the most current version of the homework page and not the version in your browser's cache; reload the page from source.
• Final Exam is on Sat Dec 6, 3:00-5:30 pm in PKH 327. Information sheet and practice questions (pdf file).
• Worksheet 12 (pdf file) Worksheet 11 (pdf file), Worksheet 10 (pdf file), Worksheet 9 (pdf file), Worksheet 8 (pdf file), Worksheet 7 (pdf file), Worksheet 6 (pdf file), Worksheet 5 (pdf file), Worksheet 4 (pdf file), Worksheet 3 (pdf file), Worksheet 2 (pdf file), Worksheet 1 (pdf file), Worksheet 0 (pdf file).
• Link to textbook. See 1st-day handout for course ID.
• Essay project due Mon Nov 24 on the following mathematicians who were involved in developing calculus: Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799), Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891). Suggested readings: Agnesi, Fermat, Euler, Kovalevskaya.
  Some items to note when reading: place & year of birth, country/countries of living for bulk of life, year and age at death, what motivated the person to pursue a career in the mathematical sciences, the person's educational background, the person's family and cultural background, whether or not the person's family encouraged his/her study of mathematics, whether or not society approved of the person's study of mathematics, the person's official occupation. Essay on each mathematician should be at least 200 words (so at least 800 words total), written in complete English sentences, using good grammar, spelling and punctuation. Other references, besides those listed here, may be used, and all references should be listed, and contents paraphrased (not plagiarised!), unless a particular quotation of 1 or 2 lines is quoted (in quotation marks). The number of quotations should be at most 2 per mathematician. See http://library.uta.edu/tutorials/Plagiarism/ for more information on plagiarism and citing sources correctly. See http://www.awm-math.org/biographies/contest.html for examples of good essays.
• A student may minor in Mathematics by taking 18 hours of mathematics courses, with at least six hours of 3000/4000 level courses. The courses which may be counted toward a math minor are MATH 1426 and above, except for capstone mathematics courses specifically for prospective middle or secondary grades mathematics teachers. Interested students should consult a math advisor (C Krueger, T Aktosun, H Baker).
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Math 5392: Introduction to Lie Algebras
        Handouts & worksheets will be distributed in class on the relevant dates.

• Instructor's office hours: Monday after class in PKH 487 or 462, and Wednesday 3:45-5:30 pm (if not teaching at this time) or 4:45-5:30 pm (on days not available at 3:45-4:30 pm) in PKH 462, or by appointment.
• 1st-day handout (pdf file).
• Homework for all semester (pdf file).
• See first 2 pages of this pdf file on Jordan normal form.
• Handout on writing proofs (pdf file).
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(copied from Don Bovee at math.washington.edu)