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University of North Carolina


Math 524
Elementary Differential Equations

Fall 2008

Pictured above Augustin Cauchy, French postage stamp (11/10/1989).  Image from jeff560.tripod.com/




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Syllabus
Schedule and Homework Assignments
Notes and Handouts

Exams

Course Information:

Instructor:  Jason Metcalfe
E-mail:  metcalfe@email.unc.edu
Office:  Phillips 324K
Office Hours: Tu 9:15-10:15am, W 10:00-11:00am, and by appointment.


Lecture:  TuTh 8:00-9:15am
Classroom: 
Phillips 228



Announcements:

[11/18/08] - Here are some graphs associated to today's (and possibly Thursday's) lecture:
Approximation of a function by Taylor polynomials
Fourier series, first example
Fourier series, second example (triangular wave)


[10/13/08]
- Office hours are canceled for 10/14, 10/15 due to work related travel. 

Here, you can find the pictures of the Gamma function and the Bessel functions (of the first kind and of the second kind).

Here, you can find plots of some Legendre polynomials.


[8/26/08]
- You can refer here to see a graph of the Gamma function.  This comes from an outstanding mathematics website:  mathworld.

[8/19/08] - Welcome, and best wishes for a happy and productive semester!