Graphing Utility Recommendation

Here at the start of another string of posts I wanted to recommend a graphing program I’ve used pretty intensively recently: Graphmatica. It’s shareware with a license fee of $25, and in particular if you want to graph complicated piecewise-defined functions it’s the best thing around. The graph below was entered as a single function. […]

Mathlinks

I had a page on my Notre Dame website called mathlinks. This isn’t the same collection but it falls into the same category. The math genealogy page is always interesting reading. A translation of Euclid’s Elements by Richard Fitzpatrick. The University of Michigan’s Historical Mathematics Collection. A page of famous codes and ciphers. Animated GIF […]

Calculus handouts

Here are a few handouts I’ve used in the past to teach parts of calculus. Relating latitude and longitude to spherical coordinates. Bonus appendix about great circles. Trigonometry review for calculus students. A guide to curve sketching. Painfully detailed examples of surface integration.