Math 156 - Applied Honors Calculus II - Fall 2024
Math 156 is a calculus 2 class designed for STEM majors (though all majors are welcome). The prerequisite is a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Calculus exam (AB or BC) or equivalent. For more details see the course description.

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all sections meet MonTuesWedFri in 4096 East Hall (except for sections 3 and 4 on Tuesdays)
section 1, 9-10am, Nizhum Rahman
section 2, 10-11am, Robert Krasny
section 3, 11am-12pm, Xiaojia Wang, Tues in 1866 EH
section 4, 12-1pm, Xiaojia Wang, Tues in 3096 EH
section 5, 1-2pm, James Wheeler

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Information
organization, topics, schedule, 2023 lecture notes

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Homework

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Exams
1st midterm exam, Wed Sept 25, 6-7:30pm
2nd midterm exam, Wed Nov 6, 6-7:30pm
final exam, Thurs Dec 12, 8-10am

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Study Groups
The Science Learning Center offers study groups for Math 156 students. The groups meet weekly to review course material.

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"You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work." - John Backus, lead developer of Fortran

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Links

• parabola movie 1, parabola movie 2 at DTW, trig substitution by Hanliang Guo
  
• parabolas at the Michigan League
  
• Desmos demonstration of Euler's method by James Wheeler
  
• videos from Khan Academy by Salman Khan
  
• videos from MIT Open Courseware by Herbert Gross
  
• University of Michigan policy on granting AP credit
  
• Advanced Placement homepage
  
• torus cover illustration from Physics Today, Feb 2005
  
• information on majoring or minoring in math
  
• Undergraduate Math Club
  
• Proof Without Words: Double Sum for Sine and Cosine by Hasan Unal, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 41 (2010) p. 392
  
• Proof Without Words: Sine Sum Identity by Long Wang, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 45 (2014) p. 190
  
• Research on Student Notetaking by D. DeZure, M. Kaplan & M. A. Deerman [pdf]
  Occasional Paper No. 16, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan [CRLT]
  "... Research on student notetaking shows that taking notes in class and reviewing those notes (either in class or afterward) have a positive impact on student learning. ..."
  
• student fellowships, summer programs, etc.
  
• Portrait of Leonhard Euler
  
• Leonhard Euler: His Life, the Man, and His Works by Walter Gautschi, SIAM Review, vol. 50, no. 1 (March 2008), pp. 3-33
  
• Euler and Infinite Series by Morris Kline, Mathematics Magazine, vol. 56 (1983) pp. 307-314
  
• Euler's solution of the Basel problem, an alternative solution using light from 3Blue1Brown
  
• a video about e by the Mathologer
  
• Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary by Helge Kragh, Physics World, December 2000, pp. 31-35
  
• Why is Maxwell's Theory so hard to understand? by Freeman Dyson
  
• How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented