• Class Links:
  • Differential Eqns
  • HOMEWORK
  • Course Schedule
  • Check your grades
  • M240 - Extra stuff
  • Course Syllabus

Current Information

• My Schedule
• Fall:
  • Mathematics for the Sciences   (Math 118)
  • Calculus I   (Math 170)
• Winter:
  • Mathematics for the Sciences   (Math 118)
  • Differential Equations   (Math 240)
• Spring semester:
  • Calculus I   (Math 170)
  • Calculus II   (Math 171)

• My Academic page
• My personal web page
• Check your grades
• A web mapping view of my life

• Office Hours:
  • Mon:  9:30- 10:00
  • Mon:  1:30- 2:00
  • Tues: 9:30- 10:00
  • Tues: 1:30- 2:00
  • Wed: 9:30- 10:00
  • Thurs: 8:30- 9:30
  • Thurs: 2:00- 3:30
  • Fri:  9:30- 10:00
  • Fri:  1:30- 2:00

Notes:

Thank you all for a great semester.

I am not teaching ODE’s this term.

My current Schedule

According to news reports, Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon that would end the Internet as we know it. The reported Google-Verizon deal would allow giant corporations to control what websites are load quickly and easily on the Internet and dump everyone else onto an Internet slow lane.
As a student, you need to be involved in preventing this, PLEASE sign the letter to Google Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt:
either:

• Free Press
• MoveOn.org

What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is an open-source alternative to Windows and Office. Read more > > >

Your open access to the web is at stake - Debunk the Junk! Submit comments to the FCC to Protect Free Speech. Net Neutrality protects Free Speech!

Patent Absurdity

A new documentary film "Patent Absurdity" is set to expose how the judicial activism that led to the patenting of software has broken the US patent system's promise of promoting the progress of science and useful arts. This has ramifications for students, in the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION was October 24

Check out the photos of the worldwide events at www.350.org/.

350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.

The case against Microsoft and proprietary software

Juniors & Seniors take note

Portfolios: the Hidden Weapon of Job Seeking

Software - Open Source

    (Free Software generally under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License)

• - OpenOffice.org is a multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute (and much better than that expensive virus you are probably currently using).
• The open source web browser.
• - GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
• The R Project for Statistical Computing - R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
• XPPAUT a tool for numerically solving differential, difference, or delay equations
• Maxima - a sophisticated computer algebra system
• Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations (similar to Matlab).
• Iode - free, but you will need Octave (see link below) or Matlab to use (phase plane utility).
• SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software - Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab

Links:

• Dfield Introduction, followed by: dfield link by John C. Polking at Rice University.
• HOMEWORK
• Some basic course information, not in the syllabus.
• Course Schedule
• Check your grades on line
• Course Syllabus
• A Differential Equations reference

My personal homepage
Department of Mathematics and Computer Systems at Mercyhurst College

Software - Open Source

    (Free Software generally under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License)

• - OpenOffice.org is a multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute (and much better than that expensive virus you are probably currently using).
• The open source web browser.
• - GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
• The R Project for Statistical Computing - R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
• XPPAUT a tool for numerically solving differential, difference, or delay equations
• Maxima - a sophisticated computer algebra system
• Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations (similar to Matlab).
• Iode - free, but you will need Octave (see link below) or Matlab to use (phase plane utility).
• SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software - Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab

Other References

• Winplot for Windows XP This is a great -FREE- math ploting utility. It compact and very easy to use.
• A Calculus reference
• Another source of Calculus references
• Direction Field
• Phase Portraits for ODE's

• Differential Eqns
• HOMEWORK
• Course Schedule
• Check your grades
• M240 - Extra stuff
• Course Syllabus

Last modified: 31 Jul 10