MATH 263
Honors Calculus III, Spring 2009

Lectures:

MTWF 2-2:50, 303 Deady

Office hours:

Thursday 12:00-1:15, or by appointment

My office:

207 Deady, phone 3465635

Textbook:

Calculus by M. Spivak, 4th edition

Prerequisites/Course content:

The prerequisite for this course is Math 262. The course content corresponds to chapters 20-27 of the Spivak's book.

Homework:

Assignments will be posted on this web page. Homework will be collected every Wednesday at the beginning of the class. Late homework will not be accepted. We will often use the Tuesday class period to discuss the previous and the current homework. The lowest homework score will be dropped.

Midterm: Friday, May 1

Final exam: Take home. Will be handed out by the end of the last week.

Grading:

Schedule:

week 1 (March 30-April 3) ch. 20: Approximation by Polynomial Functions

Assignment #1 (due April 8)

week 2 (April 6-10) ch. 20 (cont.), 21: Transcendency of e

Assignment #2 (due April 15)

week 3 (April 13-17) ch. 22: Infinite Sequences

Assignment #3 (due April 22)

week 4 (April 20-24) ch. 22 (cont.), 23: Infinite Series

Assignment #4 (due April 29)

Review problems for the exam (some of them were in your homework): Ch. 20, #1(iii),(vi),(vii), 3(iii), 11bc, 14; Ch. 22, #1, 2, 8, 10; Ch. 23, #1, 8.

week 5 (April 27- May 1) ch. 23 (cont.), midterm

Assignment #5 (due May 6)

week 6 (May 4-8) ch. 23 (cont.)

Assignment #6 (due May 13)

week 7 (May 11-15) ch. 24: Uniform Convergence

Assignment #7 (due May 20)

week 8 (May 18-22) ch. 24 (cont.), ch.26: Complex Functions

Assignment #8 (due May 27)

weeks 9 and 9: ch.26 (cont.) and ch.27: Complex Power Series

Review problems: Ch. 24 #5, 7, 11(a)(b); Ch. 25 #5, 11; Ch. 26 #4, 7; Ch. 27 #1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9(i),(ii),(iii), 11(a)(b).

Solutions to previous homeworks will be posted periodically on Blackboard

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