----------------------- Mathematical Sciences

Adrian Soto    
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717-0240

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 My Schedule for Fall 08
Office: Wilson Hall Room  2-245
Phone: 406-994-5348
FAX: 406-994-1789
soto@math.montana.edu
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MATH182-SECTION 01:  Calculus and Analytic Geometry II

We will be meeting at 8am in Wilson 1-142, and we will use Stewart's 6th edition book.  My office hours (subject to change) are Tuesdays and Wednesdays at10am; on Thursdays they will be at 1pm.  I will also be in the Learning Center on Fridays at 10a.m.  You can check the schedule of the Learning Center to see when  Math182 help is available.
The course supervisor information is the following:
  Supervisor:   Sandy Bowers
  Office:   Wilson 2-250
  Email:   sbowers@math.montana.edu
  Phone:   (406) 994-5346

General Math182 info:
You can consult the Math182 web page; there you will find the following:
Syllabus
Homework
Solution to selected even problems
Previous exams(See lower part  of the pagepage)
Other info (General Info, grading,  Learning Center hours,  Textbook)

(last updated: September 2 2008)
I will also post some announcements particular to our section here.  In particular, if you bring a print out of the syllabus, the assigned homework and the functions whose graph you should know on Friday, you will receive an extra point in the quiz.

CHANGE FROM THE PRINT OUT:  Office hours on Thursdays change from 10 am to 1pm.

I will announce  changes, if any, during class.

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Some software links.
maxima is an open source (free software; google fsf to see more) program that has the same capabilities as Maple or Mathematica.

texmacs
is an editor with which you can write math documents.  You can also use some computer algebra systems inside (like maxima, pari, octave, sage, r, etc...), and include the results nicely typed.

sage is  probably  the best effort I know of to provide a wrapper to many computer algebra systems with a common real world programing language: Python.  You can do numerics like Mathlab, symbolic calculations like Maple, you also have all the libraries python has, and can also run it in a nice note-book, use Group Theory, Number Theory, Graph Theory, Elliptic curves, Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc..  It already contains wrappers to Maxima, Numpy, Sympy, Pari, and many others.