MATH 438 Oakland University

Math 438 Fall, 2003 PROJECT, Due November 24 Your project should be a well-written explanation of the topic and should convince me that you have a good understanding of it. It should not be something copied from a book. Include references and a list

Math 438, Fall 2003 PORTFOLIO Your portfolio should have a table of contents, an introduction, 6-10 problems from the homework assignments, concluding remarks. The table of contents should list each of the problems. The introductory remarks shoul

How to access Maple 9 on a Sun workstation in a cluster Since Maple 7 is the default version of Maple on the cluster machines, you have to do something special to use Maple 9. There are two methods. One is to give the command module load maple/9.0 On

Math 438, Fall 2003 Homework Weeks 13, 14 Reread 4-4 or your notes on this material. Read 4-5, 5-10 through Example 3. Assignment 11, due Friday, December 5 4-4 #5,6,13,15,18 Hint for #13 : First prove that if there is a parametrization in which the

Math 438 Differential Geometry, Fall 2003 Nancy Stanton 268 Hurley, x7436 Office hours: By appointment and 8:45-10:00 a.m. T and 4:00-5:00 p.m. Th Text: Do Carmo, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surface Recommended: Student edition of Maple (see

Math 438, Fall 2003 Homework Week 5 Reread 2-2. Start on 2-3. Assignment 4, due Friday, September 26 2-1 #1,2,4,5,7,12. Let be a regular closed plane curve with |k| 1/R for some R > 0. Show that the length of is greater than or equal to 2R.

Math 438, Fall 2003 Homework Weeks 1 and 2 For Friday, August 29, read 1-2 and 1-3. Be prepared to present 1-2 #1,3,5 in class. For Monday, September 1, read 1-4 and start on 1-5. Be prepared to present 1-3 #5 and 1-4 #13. For Wednesday, September 3,

Math 438, Fall 2003 Homework Week 3 For Monday, September 8, reread 1-5. Be prepared to present 1-5 #10. For Wednesday, September 10, read 1-6 and be prepared to present the following problem. Let be a regular curve with constant curvature and torsi

Math 438, Fall 2003 Homework Week 4 For Wednesday, September 17, be prepared to present 1-7 #1. For Friday, September 19, read 2-1, 2-2. Assignment 3, due Friday, September 19 1-3, #7 1-7, #4,5,7 5-7, #9 (This does not require anything you havent alr