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

MATH172:

We will be using Stewart's Calculus, and we will have all the course material, the syllabus and the homework in d2l. If you can't have access to d2l, please talk to me.

If you want to contact me here is my schedule. I have office hours Monday, Thursday and Friday at noon, and I will be in the Learning Center on Wednesdays at 10. Class is in Wilson 1142 from 1:10pm to 2:00pm, though we might use the computer lab at some point.

You may pick up your test on Thursday, December 15 at 1pm in my office. Grades have been submitted.

Downloadable material (other than d2l)

Some software links.


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 notebook. You can 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.
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.