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Rhea Section for MA 271 Professor Walther, Fall 2020
Rhea Section for MA271: "Multivariable Calculus"
Professor Walther, Fall 2020
Welcome!
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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!)
Discussion
- post link to discussion page here
- post link to discussion page here
Other Links
- Math Club Homepage
- Rhea's Math Squad
- Study Abroad
- The Big 10 Graduate School Expo
- Math Internships and Research Opportunities (REU's)
- Math Game Competition
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: Yi Li |
| 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: Rebecca Jennings and Brad Abelman |
| 8 | Modular forms | Group 8: |
| 9 | The Laplace operator | Group 9: Tim Fuller |
| 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: Shubham Shrivastava |
| 15 | Goedel incompleteness | Group 15: Sean Woerner |
| 16 | Curse of dimensionality | Group 16: Edgar Mejia |
| 17 | Fractals | Group 17: Harry Lee |
| 18 | Haar measure | Group 18: |
| 19 | Cauchy's residue theorem | Group 19: |
| 20 | Fourier transforms | Group 20:Luke Oxley |
| 21 | Nyquist's theorem | Group 21: J. Michael Worthington |
| 22 | Hyperbolic spaces | Group 22: Zoe Egbert |
| 23 | Single value decompositions | Group 23: Katherine Wilson |
| 24 | Hilbert's Nullstellensatz | Group 24: |
| 25 | Maximum principle in analysis | Group 25: Alex Beers |
| 26 | Banach spaces | Group 26: |
| 27 | Penrose tilings | Group 27: Gayathri Thirunavukkarasu, Cynthia Wan, Sveni Thalor |
| 28 | Quaternions | Group 28: Krish Gupta |
| 29 | Schrödinger equation | Group 29: Varun Chheda |
