MATH 352 - Theory of Calculus - Spring 2024
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Monday, January 15
MLK Day: Read this.
Wednesday, January 17
You should read Sections 1-3 in the Ross textbook.
Lecture Notes (Why this course?)
Optional Reading (someday!): The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician, by George Berkeley, 1734.
Lecture Notes (Starting Assumptions, Rational Numbers, Real Numbers.)
Some Experiments With AI Math Proofs (new)
Friday, January 19
Section 2, The Rational Zeros Theorem. Notes Video
Review, Finite and Infinite Sets. Notes Video
Monday, January 22
Section 2, Algebraic Numbers. Notes Video
Section 3, Ordered Fields. Notes Video
Section 3, Triangle Inequality. Notes Video
Read Section 4.
Wednesday, January 24
Section 4: Completeness Axiom Notes Video
Optional: Proof that e is Irrational Notes Video
Read Section 5 on your own.
Section 6 is optional reading.
Start reading Section 7. This is the start of Chapter 2.
Friday, January 26
Sections 7-9. Sequences: Notes (Covers four lectures.)
Sequences Video 1.
Monday, January 29
Sequences continued. Sequences Video 2.
Wednesday, January 31
Sequences continued. Sequences Video 3.
Supplimental Notes
Friday, February 2
Sequences continued. Sequences Video 4.
Monday, February 5
Section 10, Cauchy Sequences. Notes (Covers two lectures.)
Video 1
Lim sup & lim inf examples.
Sheet 1 Sheet 1
Wednesday, February 7
Cauchy Sequences continued. Video 2
Friday, February 9
Section 11. Subsequences. Notes Video
Monday, February 12
Test 1, 7 - 9 pm, Covers up through Section 11.
Wednesday, February 14
Section 12. More on lim sup and lim inf.
Notes
Video
We skip Section 13.
Friday, February 16
Sections 14 & 15. Series. Notes (Covers two lectures.)
Series Video 1
Monday, February 19
Series continued. Summary of Test for Series (From one of the Stewart calculus textbooks.)
Series Video 2
Geometric Series Examples
Koch Snowflake
(We skip Section 16.)
Wednesday, February 21
Section 17, Continuous Functions. Notes. Video.
Friday, February 23
Section 18, Theorems about Continuous Functions. Notes Video 1 Video 2
Monday, February 26
Section 19, Uniform Continuity. Notes. (Covers two lectures.)
Video 1.
Wednesday, February 28
Section 19, continued.
Video 2.
Friday, March 1
Section 20: Limits of Functions. Notes. Video.
Handout: All 15 Limit Definitions - ε-δ form
Handout: All 15 Limit Definitions - sequence form
Handout: Limit Rules Summary
We skip Sections 21 & 22.
Monday, March 4
Section 23, Power Series. Notes. Video.
Example 6. Video.
Wednesday, March 6
Section 24, Uniform Convergence. Notes. Video.
Video for Examples Plots for Examples.
Friday, March 8
Section 25, Weierstrass M-test. Notes. Video
Monday, March 11
Spring Break!
Wednesday, March 13
Spring Break!
Wednesday, March 15
Spring Break!
Monday, March 18
Test 2, 7 - 9 pm, Neckers 156.
Wednesday, March 20
Section 26, Term-By-Term (part 1). Notes Video
Suppliment: Youtube video on arctan series
Suppliment: Video with arctan Taylor series plots (Stop after two minutes!)
Friday, March 22
Section 26 (Part 2, Proof of Abel's Theorem). Notes Video
Monday, March 25
Section 28, The Derivative
Part 1: Notes 1 Video 1
Wednesday, March 27
Section 28
Part 2: Notes 2 Video 2
Friday, March 29
Section 29: The Mean Value Theorem.
Part I. Notes Video
Monday, April 1
Section 29.
Part II. Notes 1 Notes 2 Video Figure for Theorem 10-3
Suppliment on Concavity: Notes Video
Wednesday, April 3
Section 30: L'Hospital's Rule.
Notes Video 1 Video 2
Optional Reading: On L'Hôpital's Rule by Lorenzo Sudan
Extra Examples.
Friday, April 5
Section 31: Taylor's Theorem. Notes Video
Monday, April 8
Section 31: Binomial Theorem. Notes Video
Note: You can skip the subsections on Newton's Method and the Secant Method.
Wednesday, April 10
Chapter 6: Integration.
Section 32. Riemann Integral: Notes Video
Drawing Video
Friday, April 12
Section 32 continued. Notes Video
Monday, April 15
Section 32 continued. Notes Video
Notes Video
Wednesday, April 17
Section 33. Properties of the Riemann Integral: Notes Video
More Term By Term
Friday, April 19
Section 34. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Notes Video footnote
Monday, April 22
Section 34 continued. Notes Video
Suppliment: Integration by Substitution
Suppliment: Integration by Parts
Optional reading: Trapiziodal Rule Error Estimate Formula
We skip Section 35.
Wednesday, April 24
Section 36. Improper Integrals: Notes Video
. Improper Integrals: New improved notes
Arc Length.
Friday, April 26
Test 3, 7 - 9 pm, Neckers 156.
Monday, April 29
Student Presentations
Wednesday, May 1
Student Presentations
Friday, May 3
Student Presentations
Final Exam date and time TBA.