Math 2411B

• Instructor: George Cain

• Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00 - 9:55 a.m., and any other time I am in my office.

• Teaching Assistant: Mr. Marcus Sammer. Mr. Sammer's office hours:
  Tuesday 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon;   Wednesday 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. .

• Meeting Places & Times:
  Monday through Friday, 10:05 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

  Room 270, William Vernon Skiles Classroom Building

• Class rolls: Please take a look at what the Office of the Registrar says is the official roll for this class. If you do not find your name where you believe it should be, see the Registrar's Office as soon as you can.

• Class picture: Here is your picture

• Important notice: Please read this important notice.

• Textbook: Calculus, by Salas, Hille, and Etgen. (8^th Edition). We shall also look at some material from the fine book Multivariable Calculus, by George Cain and James Herod. It is available (free!) on-line.

• Quizzes: There will be six half-hour quizzes. These will be

  Tuesday, September 12	Tuesday, September 26	Tuesday, October 10
  Thursday, October 26	Thursday, November 9	Tuesday, November 28

  You will be allowed to use any books, notes, tables, computers, or calculators you wish on the quizzes and the final examination.

• Quiz solutions: Here are the solved quizzes:

  September 12	September 26	October 10
  October 26	November 9	November 28

• Homework: You can find the homework assignments here. These are not to be handed in, but it is most important that you have a go at them--they will form the basis of the recitation discussions.

  Here is my solution for the last homework assignment.

• Grades: Your course grade will be determined from the following information:

  Quizzes, 6 @200	1200
  Homework	200
  Final Examination	600
  total	2000

  You can see your grade as of right now. Let me know of any errors or anomalies.

• Final examination: The Office of the Registrar has published the Final Examination schedule. The examination for Math 2411B is to be
  Tuesday, December 12, 8:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

  Room 270, Skiles Building

• Notes: The Flying in the Wind article is here. You can also see The Bead Game and Maps, Great Circles, Rhumb Lines, and All That.

  There is a lot of good stuff at the School of Mathematics web site for Math 2401. Take a look.

  The method of Lagrange multipliers is named for Joseph-Louis Lagrange. You can read a biographical sketch of him if you like. You can also read about George Green, the man for whom Green's Theorem is named.

  Take a look at a short biography of August Möbius. You can also see a biography of Felix Klein.

  There are yet more biographies for your reading pleasure: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, for whom Gauss's Theorem is named; and George Gabriel Stokes, for whom Stokes's Theorem is named.

• Course grades: The final grades for the course are ready. Please do not hesitate to come see me if you have any question at all about the grade I assigned you.

  Happy Holidays!

A vulgar mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road, he is at a stand; whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets every rub.

4 December 2000