Teaching

Preparing for class

Success in Mathematics (link)

Common errors (link)

Classic fallacies (link)

Fall '09 Classes

Math 242

CRN 12182

1:30--2:50 MWF 336 JB

View the syllabus.
List of recommended exercises.

Next Test
Fri 4 Dec
Chapt. 4+

This link is a little too advanced for Calc tests
and a little too elementary for grad work,
but you should all look at it anyway --
every student who has to write math, be it exams or proofs,
will find something you should keep in mind.

If you can't say it with precision,
you don't understand it.
---Jim Green (physics prof)

Imprecise language is the mark of
a master of persuasion and a novice of mathematics.
---Rebecca Weber (math student)

Math 511

CRN 14469

11:30--12:20 MWF 336 JB

View the syllabus.
List of recommended exercises.

Next Test
Fri 13 Nov
Chapt. 4+

Spring '09 Classes

Math 525

CRN 25523

11:30--12:20 MWF 336 JB

View the syllabus.

List of recommended exercises.
List of assignments..

Grades should be available
after 5:00 pm Friday 22 May
through myWSU.

Math 713

CRN 25525

1:30--2:20 MWF 336 JB

View the syllabus.

List of recommended exercises.
List of assignments.

Graduate-level Handouts [PDFs]

Nets and Filters [725]

Semidirect Products [813]

Tor, Ext, and universal completions [713]

Studying mathematical texts

The ultimate guide to reading mathematics,
Charles Wells's Handbook of Mathematical Discourse,
has been extensively revised, is now officially published,
and can be purchased here.

The old, shorter, preliminary version
in hypertext form as a PDF file
is still available to my students
by special arrangement with the author.

If you do not have the free
Acrobat or GSview/Ghostscript reader
for PDFs, you will have to download and install it.

History of mathematics

Geometers' birthdays

Some History of Geometry

Links page
With brief reviews of some
by my Math History classes.

And now a word from a sponsor...

Prelude to physics

Just for fun

The Mathematics Student's Psalm

Beastly humor (PDF)

Student musings at St. Cloud State U. (link)

Kasman's database of mathematical fiction (link)

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