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MATH   101 SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS I               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
           *** Hour exams 8 AM TTH ***
Differentiation, extrema, Newton's method, integration, fundamental
theorem of calculus, area, volume, natural logarithm, exponential.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM HB*427   Harvey, Shelly                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   102 SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS II              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
           *** Hour exams 8 AM TTH ***
Techniques of integration, arc length, surface area, Simpson's rule,
L'Hopital's rule.  Infinite sequences and series, tests for convergence,
power series, radius of convergence.
Section 002 taught by Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Section 002 enrollment limited to 25 students.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM BL*123   Hoffoss, Diane                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM GRB*211W Xia, Qinglan                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM BL*131   Pauls, Scott                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   112 CALCULUS AND ITS APPLICATIONS            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
           *** Hour exams 8 AM TTH ***
See Math 111.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM GRB*211W DePauw, Thierry                *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   211 ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL  EQUATIONS & LINEA Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
           *** Hour exams 8 AM TTH ***
Separable equations, first order linear equations, nth order linear
equations with constant coefficients, Laplace transforms.  Vector
spaces, dimension, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices.  Systems of
linear first order differential equations, exponential of a matrix.
Qualitative theory of nonlinear systems.
Math 211 will be taught using the computer assisted approach using
OWLNET.
Prereq- Math 102.
Section 002 taught by Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall only).
Section 002 enrollment limited to 25 students (Fall only).
001 MWF     08:00AM-08:50AM PL*210   Slimowitz, Jennifer            *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   212 MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Gradient, divergence, and curl.  Lagrange multipliers.  Multiple
intergrals.  Spherical coordinates.  Line integrals, conservative
vector fields, Green's theorem, Stokes' theorem, Gauss' theorem.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM SH*301   Metzler, David                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM PL*AMP   Jones, Frank                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM PL*210   Gao, Zhiyong                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   222 HONORS CALCULUS IV                       Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
See Math 221.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM HB*227   Hempel, John                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   322 INTRO TO ANALYSIS II                     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
See Math 321.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM HB*423   Slimowitz, Jennifer            *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   356 ABSTRACT ALGEBRA                         Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Groups: normal subgroups, factor groups, Abelian groups.  Rings: ideals,
Euclidean rings, and unique factorization.  Fields: algebraic
extensions, finite fields.  Students may not take this course and Math
463.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM HB*227   Chang, Stanley                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   365 NUMBER THEORY                            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Properties of numbers depending mainly on the notion of divisbility.
Continued fractions.
Offered alternate years.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM HB*227   Boshernitzan, Michael          *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   382 COMPLEX ANALYSIS                         Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Cauchy integral theorem, Taylor series, residues, evaluation of
integrals by means of residues, conformal mapping, application to
two-dimensional fluid flow.  A student may not receive credit for this
course and Math 427, or Caam 330.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM HB*223   Polking, John                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   390 UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM                 Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Expository lectures by undergraduate students on various mathematical
topics not usually contained in other courses.  Each student is required
to give one lecture and to attend all sessions.
001 MF      12:05PM-12:55PM HB*423   Jones, Frank                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   402 DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Introduction to Riemannian geometry.  Additional topics may vary from
year to year.
Prereq- Math 401 and either Math 443 or permission of the instructor.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM HB*453   Metzler, David                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   424 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
See Math 423.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM HB*453   DePauw, Thierry                *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   426 TOPICS IN REAL ANALYSIS                  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Topics vary.  Past topics include:  Fourier series, harmonic analysis,
probabilty theory, advanced topics in measure theory, ergodic theory.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM HB*423   Hardt, Robert                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   427 COMPLEX ANALYSIS                         Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Cauchy-Riemann equations, power series, Cauchy's integral formula,
residue calculus, conformal mappings, special topics such as the Riemann
mapping theorem, elliptic function theory.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM HB*427   Gao, Zhiyong                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   443 GENERAL TOPOLOGY                         Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Basic point set topology.  Includes set theory, well ordering.
Metrization.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM HB*423   Boshernitzan, Michael          *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   445 ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY                       Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Introduction to the theory of homology.  Simplicial complexes, cell
complexes and cellular homology, cohomology, maifolds, Poincare Duality.
Prereq- Math 443 and either Math 356 or Math 463 or permission of
instructor.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM HB*423   Cochran, Tim                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   464 ALGEBRA II                               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
See Math 463.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM HB*423   Stong, Richard                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   490 SUPERVISED READING                       Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   523 FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS                      Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Locally convex spaces. Banach spaces. Hilbert spaces. Special topics.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM HB*453   Veech, William                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   527 ERGODIC THEORY AND TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM HB*227   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   542 TOPICS IN ADVANCED TOPOLOGY              Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM HB*453   Cochran, Tim                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   590 CURRENT MATHEMATICS SEMINAR              Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
Expository lectures on topics of recent research in mathematics.  These
lectures are to be delivered by mathematics graduate students and
faculty.  Material for the lectures will be frequently drawn from
recent published lectures; for example, in the Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society or the Russian Mathematics Surveys.
Prereq- permission of the department.
001 T       02:30PM-03:50PM HB*227   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   591 GRADUATE TEACHING SEMINAR                Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
Discussion on teaching issues and practice lectures by participants as
preparation for classroom teaching of mathematics.
Prereq- Graduate student status or permission of department.
001 TH      02:30PM-03:50PM HB*227   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

MATH   800 THESIS AND RESEARCH                      Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

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