Prerequisite: MATH240 and MATH241, with grade of C or better; and permission of department.

Lectures: MWF 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm, MTHB0423

Instructor:    Dr. Kasso Okoudjou
Contact information: 4116 Mathematics Building; kasso(at)math(dot)umd(dot)edu; Phone: (301) 405-5081.
Office Hours: Monday 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Wednesday and Friday 11:00 am - 12:00pm, or by appointment.

Textbook:   "Advanced Calculus", by P. M. Fitzpatrick, 2nd Edition. (Published by PWS Publishing. ISBN: 0534376037).

Tutor:   Kevin McGoff, Monday and Wednesday, 9:00 - 10:50 A.M., Room 0409 in the Math building; Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 - 10:50 A.M., Room 2300 in the Math building. In these sessions, you can get explanations for conceptual points, and also feedback and hints (not solutions) for homework problems.

Course web page: http://www.math.umd.edu/~kasso/math410fa08.html

Syllabus: We will cover most of Chapters 1-9 of the text. Syllabus

Homework and Examinations: There will be a weekly homework assignment due every Monday in class. Only a proper subset of the assigned problems will be selected and graded. The lowest 3 homework grades will be dropped. There will be 7 quizzes during the semester. The lowest 2 quiz scores will be dropped. In addition there will be 3 (in class) exams and a final exam. No late homework will be accepted, and there will be no makeup quizzes or exams. It is OK to work on the problem sets in cooperation with others, but you must write up the solutions by yourself.

The tentative schedule for the exams is:

• Exam 1: Friday October 3
  
• Exam 2: Friday October 31
  
• Exam 3: Friday, November 21.
  
• Final: Friday, December 19 -- 8:00am-10:00am

Grading:

• 100 for homework,
• 100 for quizzes,
• 100 for Exam 1,
• 100 for Exam 2,
• 100 for Exam 3,
• 200 for the final exam.

Tentatively, letter grades will be based on your accumulated points at the end of the semester, according to the following scheme: 90%-A; 80%-B; 70%-C; 50%-D.

Attendance and absences : You are responsible for the material covered in class, whether you attend or not. You are also responsible for the announcements made during class; they may include changes in the syllabus.

If you need accommodations because of a disability, please inform me immediately.

Tentative Course Outline & Homework assignments: http://www.math.umd.edu/~kasso/schedule410.html
Sections numbers and Homework numbers are from the Textbook

Course Projects: You can work on a course project to earn some bonus points. You can work alone or in a group of three. The list below gives you some possible project, but if you have in mind a project not listed, please talk to me about it. The deadline to notify me which project you would like to work on is Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Here is a list of suggested projects:
Construction of the real numbers
Numerical methods to find zeros of function
Approximation by polynomials
Fourier series and boundary value problems
Fourier series amd approximation
Hyperbolic functions
..... other projects are welcome, these are just some suggestions.

Student Conduct Code: The University of Maryland, College Park has a nationally recognized Code of Academic Integrity, administered by the Student Honor Council. This Code sets standards for academic integrity at Maryland for all undergraduate and graduate students. As a student you are responsible for upholding these standards for this course. It is very important for you to be aware of the consequences of cheating, fabrication, facilitation, and plagiarism. For more information on the Code of Academic Integrity or the Student Honor Council, please visit the Student Honors Council web site.