MCS-122 - Calculus II
Spring 2001
Links
:
World Population
(US Census Bureau) (
World population: 1950-2050
How does the US Census Bureau predict?)
Making Population Projections
(U.S. Census Bureau)-paragraph two in "Projecting Mortality and Fertility"
Notes on
Taylor Series
(with embedded applets)
Taylor Polynomials of the
Sin(x)
and
e
x
(java applet, Paul Garrett, UMN)
Another
applet
for Taylor polynomials of sin(x)
Tool for
numerical computation of series
Koch snowflake
Banach-Tarski
Paradox
Axiom of Choice
(and Banach Tarski)
Knot Theory: an
introduction
Volume of a Solid of Revolution (
java applet
)
Volume of a solid by slicing (
solid 1
) (
solid 2
)
Golden ratio
Explore
the Great Pyramid
Constructing the
angle
in the Great Pyramid
eggmath
: java applets, more about The Ham Sandwich Theorem and Borsuk-Ulam
Rectangle Approximation Method (
java applet
)
Don't be fooled by your graphing calculator (
calculator difficulties
)
Mathematicians Solve XFL's Scheduling Problem (
NYT article)
(Talk given at
MSRI
)
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