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MATH   101 SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS I               Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Differentiation, extrema, Newton's method, integration, fundamental
theorem of calculus, area, volume, natural logarithm, exponential.
Section 002 taught by Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Fall semester.
Section 002 enrollment limited to 20 students  Fall semester.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM PL*117   TBA

MATH   102 SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS II              Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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 20 students.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM SS*106   Chase, David
002 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM BH*303   TBA
003 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM BL*131   Dworkin, Steven

MATH   112 CALCULUS AND ITS APPLICATIONS            Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Math 111.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM BL*123   Stingley, Robert

MATH   211 ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL  EQUATIONS & LINEA Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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 20 students (Fall only).
001 MWF     08:00AM-08:50AM BH*LEC   Ward, Lesley

MATH   212 MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS                   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Gradient, divergence, and curl.  Lagrange multipliers.  Multiple
intergrals.  Spherical coordinates.  Line integrals, conservative
vector fields, Green's theorem, Stokes' theorem, Gauss' theorem.
Section 002 taught by Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Fall semester.
Section 002 enrollment limited to 20 students.  Spring semester.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM BH*LEC   Scannell, Kevin
002 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM HB*453   TBA
003 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM PL*AMP   Gao, Zhiyong
004 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM PL*210   Hamilton, Emily

MATH   222 HONORS CALCULUS IV                       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Math 221.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM HB*227   Wolf, Michael

MATH   322 INTRO TO ANALYSIS II                     Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Math 321.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM HB*427   Polking, John

MATH   356 ABSTRACT ALGEBRA                         Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * 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   Scannell, Kevin

MATH   366 GEOMETRY                                 Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Topics chosen from Euclidean, spherical, hyperbolic, and projective
geometry, with emphasis on the similarities and differences found in
various geometries.  Isometries and other transformations are studied
and used throughout.  The history of the development of geometric ideas
is discussed.  This course is strongly recommended for prospective high
school teachers.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM HB*423   Stong, Richard

MATH   382 COMPLEX ANALYSIS                         Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM HB*227   Hardt, Robert

MATH   390 UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM                 Credits 1.00  Spring 97
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*227   Veech, William

MATH   402 DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY                    Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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   Gao, Zhiyong

MATH   426 TOPICS IN REAL ANALYSIS                  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Topics vary.  Past topics include:  Fourier series, harmonic analysis,
probabilty theory, advanced topics in measure theory, ergodic theory.
001 MWF     03:00PM-03:50PM HB*427   Jones, Frank

MATH   427 COMPLEX ANALYSIS                         Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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   Harvey, F.

MATH   443 GENERAL TOPOLOGY                         Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Basic point set topology.  Includes set theory, well ordering.
Metrization.
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM HB*427   Chase, David

MATH   445 ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY                       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
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*427   Wolf, Michael

MATH   464 ALGEBRA II                               Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Math 463.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM HB*423   Stong, Richard

MATH   490 SUPERVISED READING                       Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA
002 TBA     TBA                      TBA
003 TBA     TBA                      TBA

MATH   527 ERGODIC THEORY AND TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM HB*453   Veech, William

MATH   542 TOPICS IN ADVANCED TOPOLOGY              Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM HB*453   TBA

MATH   590 CURRENT MATHEMATICS SEMINAR              Credits 1.00  Spring 97
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 TH      02:30PM-03:50PM HB*227   Stingley, Robert

MATH   591 GRADUATE TEACHING SEMINAR                Credits 1.00  Spring 97
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 T       02:30PM-03:50PM HB*227   Jones, Frank

MATH   800 THESIS AND RESEARCH                      Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

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