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(This page is like a cathedral: always under reconstruction ;-)
Current
During Fall 2007 Rob is teaching back-to-back sections of Math 235
(Linear Algebra). Here's the link to an ASCII file (so you can even
read them easily with your cell-phone if necessary;) of the
Math 235
(Linear Algebra) homework schedule. And here's a link to your Math 235
practice final. For more information about what's on the exam,
please
follow this link!
OLD HOMEWORK AND EXAMS ARE IN ENVELOPES OUTSIDE
ROB'S OFFICE (as of Sunday 16 December 2007)!
Recent
In Spring 2007 Rob taught Math 425
(Advanced Calculus) and Math 235
(Linear Algebra). Here are links to the Math 425
(Advanced Calculus) homework schedule and the Math 235 (Linear
Algebra) homework schedule. And here are
answers to the Math 235 practice final.
The reader for Math 425, Wing Mui, post solutions and holds
office hours as well - for more details, please see
Wing's website . Also,
please have a look at my colleague Roman Federov's
problems for enrichment and review.
Rob organized the undergraduate TAP seminar (Math 191) during the Fall
2006 semester. It met in GANG (LGRT 1535) at lunchtime (noonish till
1:10) most Mondays and some Wednesdays. The following people kindly
contributed to the
2006 TAP
Topics. Many thanks to all of you!
More
Watch here
for further developments.
Address
Phone 413 545 6022
Secretary 413 545 2812
Fax 413 545 1801
Electronic Mail rob@gang.umass.edu
Kusner's Math Classes
About the photo: Rob's hair is now a little greyer -- and a little
shorter (in part because he was elected to the Amherst Select Board in
2005, having also led a concerted and ultimately successful effort to
preserve Amherst Town Meeting :-)
This academic year (2006-07) Rob again planned to teach a
two-semester course on
Manifolds
(Math 703-4) for graduate students. Due to unforeseen and unfortunate
circumstances, Rob will not be able to offer Math 704 in the spring.
But here is where to find homework problems and informal notes for
that course:
Manifolds I (703) and
Manifolds II
(704), along with older notes from Fall 2002
(703),
Spring 2003 (704) and Spring 2000 (Math 704).
In the Spring 2006 semester Rob taught Advanced
Linear Algebra (Math 545) ; here are the updated problems/notes
for this course. (Please compare with Rob's Spring 2002 advanced linear
algebra problems/notes.)
Rob also pinch-hit all semester for Ordinary
Differential Equations (Math 331) in Spring 2006; here is the Math 331 general
topics list and the Math 331
homework schedule for Rob's section. (This was an ambitious
syllabus, covering more than the other sections did, and not without
some ill-tempered jeers from the bleachers in the final innings -- it
didn't help that Select Board meetings went on till after midnight on
many, many occasions before this early morning course ;)
In the Fall 2005 semester Rob taught
Introduction to Abstract Algebra (Math 411); here are the notes and
homework schedule .
In the Spring 2005 semester Rob was teaching an experimental
version of Geometry and the
Imagination. This was a very popular course, so Rob hopes to have
the opportunity to offer it again soon!
During academic year 2002-03 Rob taught a two-semester course on
Manifolds (Math
703-4) for graduate students.
Here is where to find homework problems and notes from that course: Manifolds I (703) and
Manifolds II (704),
along with older notes from my Spring 2000 Math 704.
Click for postscript
or the
rawtext
version of the final Topology exam for Fall 2000.
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Department of Mathematics
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst MA 01003
USA
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