Rhea Section for MA 271 Professor Walther, Fall 2020

Rhea Section for MA271: "Multivariable Calculus"

Professor Walther, Fall 2020

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Course Info

Instructor: Prof. Walther
- Office: MATH 746
- email: walther at math dot purdue dot edu
- Office hours: Mon 11:30-12:30, Th 2:00-3:00 in my office or MATH817.
Class time and location: MTWTh 8:30-9:20 and 9:30-10:20, REC 122
Book: Thomas' Calculus, early transcendentals. Edition 14. You need chapters 10-16 only.

Important Links

Course Related Material

Course Calendar
Discussion of Homework Problems (Just keep adding to it!)
- Assignment sheet
- Syllabus

Discussion

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Your turn! Student Projects

As per the syllabus, 10% of your grade will be based on contributing a Rhea page on a subject of your choice. To pick a subject suggested below, simply write your name next to it. (See above how to edit this page).

Notes:

No more than four people per subject.
Do not remove other's people's names from projects. Rhea keeps score of edits; this is not anonymous.

Your project page will be graded based on content and presentation. Describe the subject as you see it, and report what you find interesting. Feel free to add examples, computations, etc. Links to other sources and related subjects will improve the score. Do not simply copy a book or webpage and do not plagiarize. Use your own words to say what you want to say, don't paste other people's work without acknowledging explicitly. Read Rhea's copyright policy before proceeding.

Required components: see the syllabus.

For some lovely contributions, see Honors Project 2011 by Daniel Lee.

Deadline: Sunday before finals week, December 2nd. No changes after that will be taken into account.

Topic Number	Topic Description	Team Name
1	The Galois group	Group 1:
2	Markov chains	Group 2:
3	The fundamental group	Group 3:
4	Cluster algebras	Group 4:
5	Hyperplane arrangements	Group 5:
6	Milnor fibers	Group 6:
7	Riemann surfaces	Group 7:
8	Modular forms	Group 8:
9	The Laplace operator	Group 9:
10	Littewood--Richardson rules	Group 10:
11	Calabi--Yau manifolds	Group 11:
12	Elliptc curves	Group 12:
13	Fisher information	Group 13:
14	Feynman integrals	Group 14:
15	Goedel incompleteness	Group 15:
16	Curse of dimensionality	Group 16:
17	Fractals	Group 17:
18	Haar measure	Group 18:
19	Cauchy's residue theorem	Group 19:
20	Fourier transforms	Group 20:
21	Nyquist's theorem	Group 21:
22	Hyperbolic spaces	Group 22:
23	Single value decompositions	Group 23:
24	Hilbert's Nullstellensatz	Group 24:
25	Maximum principle in analysis	Group 25:
26	Banach spaces	Group 26:
27	Penrose tilings	Group 27:

2020 Fall MA 271 Walther - Rhea

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