MTH131:

for
Management

Contact information

    Course Registration:
    Mathematical Analysis for Management, section M5B and T5A
    Credits:         4
    Day, Time:
                    section M5B    305622    M W, 5:00 PM - 6:40 PM
                    section T5A    006528    T R, 5:10 PM - 6:50 PM
    Dates:          08/25/2008 - 12/05/2008
    Room:           262 CAPEN, North Campus
       Syllabus is posted in the Documents section

    Instructor:
     Phu Vu
     140 Math Building
    State University of New York at Buffalo
    phuvu <at> buffalo <dot> edu
    Office hours: Wednesdays 10:00AM~11:00AM, Fridays 3:00PM~4:00 PM

Announcement (outdated announcement is subjected to be removed)

Grades have been officially posted ;)
I have posted your final records. Go to the grades section to check your grades. Let me know if you have any question and do it soon before this weekend. Your scores will appear on MyUB and UBLearns approximately on Friday. Congratulations everyone ;). I am glad with these excellent scores of yours.
I will return your graded tests on Monday, in my office from 1PM~4PM. Come pick up the test and see if you have any question regarding the test score. Once I post it on my website, at 4PM, the grade will not likely change. Your grade will appear in MyUB approximately Dec 12.
Solution for test Three has been posted.
Congratulations to the 24 students who have just got themselves an advanced A grade (without taking test Three). That is amazing, especially when there are so many.
I recommend students to download the review of test Three, I guarantee it benefits you a lot. I've also decided to reduce the number of questions to 4 problems and 1 extra credit problem.
Solution for test Two has been posted. Compare to your answer and prepare for test Three.
Students, wish you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Review is available for test Three. Practice homework last set is also available for downloading and practicing. Also remember to pick up graded test Two on the Monday.
It has also been announced that UBCATS is available at http://ubcats.cas.buffalo.edu/ . Your input will be very important for me. Thanks!
There will be no class on Wednesday Nov19 and Thursday Nov20. This was decided by students through a poll on the previous class, resulted in staying late on that day to cover one more topic of chapter 7.
Regarding the cheating/copying homework issue (the obvious and unbearable ones), I will have a consultation with Prof. Undergraduate Director next week. Even I dont want to, but if I need to apply the hash policies, be aware that some records will be deducted. Unless you can explain to me the situation, this will affect all the students who got involved (the copier and the original writer). Read my syllabus if you are unsure about how I deal with cheating problem.
Grades have been updated. You should be able to see your group name in the column for test Two. Use this name to fill in the group codename in the test.
I want all students to pick up their graded test Two's on Dec 01/02 class.
Homework 4 will be returned on Wednesday/Thursday.
Test 2 is now available. Let me know if you have any question regarding the test questions.
Grades have been updated.
Homework 4 has been posted.
lecture note 6, 7, 8, 9 have been posted.
Homework 3 is available, together with reading assignment 2. The homework is shorter this time and the reading is fun :)
Lecture note 5 has been posted
Homework 2 and Reading Assignment 1 have been posted. I have delayed the due date till 1st class of week 8.
I've updated the grades of test One. Top 10 students in each class are highlighted in cyan. I will post homework and reading assignment over this weekend.
I want ALL STUDENTS to go to class next week (Wednesday and Thursday) and pick up your test. I wrote feedback for each student and I want you read and learn so that you will do much better or hopefully, perfect next time. Failing to pick up the test might cause you trouble under UB attendance policy. Overall, I am glad with this result of the first test. I still want EVERYONE to be able to get a very high score in this course.
Good job on the test One. Solutions have been posted for both classes.
Homework 1 has been graded.
Practice set 4 is available to download.
Exam review has been posted.
Lecture note 4 is available.
Homework 1 out and will be due on the 2nd class of week that follows.
Students, disregard the information on UBlearn and MyUB about final exam schedules. There is no final exam in this course.
Sept4th: section T5A. Was a very exciting class, but I was busy answering questions and couldn't get the names of some students I wanted to award bonus credits. Talk to me in class next Tuesday.
Starting next week (Sept 8th), the Math Help Center in 107 Math Building will be open and free for all students, from 9:00AM till 4:00PM every weekday. I don't work there, only some teaching assistants/graduate students do, but they will be of great help if you cant find me in my office. Visit that place if you have trouble doing homework/exercises.
Lecture note and practice for week 2 are available for download
Grade list got updated. Some students' first assignments are still missing. Late due is BAD.
Practice homework 1 is out.
Semester starts this week of August 25th 2008
Homework0 has been posted, due on Friday.
Let me know if the page does not appear properly in your web browser.

Documents (links are available for download)

class handout pdf file

Be advised that I will only post a brief note of the lecture content, that is, the most important topics. This is to help students keep track of what are being taught in class. Examples, explanation, problem solving strategies, ... will be presented in class.

Week 1

August 25 2008

August 26 2008

August 27 2008

August 28 2008

Homework 0. Semester starts.
Chapter 1: 1.1 , 1.2 (partially) , 1.3 (partially)

Chapter 1: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4. Practice set 1.

chapter1 note 1

Week 2

September 01 2008

September 02 2008

September 03 2008

September 04 2008

No class on Labor Day September 01 2008.
quadratic equations and parabola

Chapter 1: 1.5, 1.6 (partially). One sided limit. Practice set 2.

chapter1 note 2

Week 3

September 08 2008

September 09 2008

September 10 2008

September 11 2008

Homework 1. 1.6 (cont) Continuity and mend a continuous function.

Least Square method. Introduction to derivatives. Practice set 3.

lecture note 3

Week 4

September 15 2008

September 16 2008

September 17 2008

September 18 2008

Chapter 2: 2.1 , 2.2

Chapter 2: 2.3, 2.5. Review session. Homework 1 due. Practice set 4.

lecture note 4

exam 1 review

Week 5

September 22 2008

September 23 2008

September 24 2008

September 25 2008

Exam One

Homework 2. Chapter 2: 2.4, 2.6.

test 1 M5B solution
test 1 T5A solution

Week 6

September 29 2008

September 30 2008

October 01 2008

October 02 2008

Rosh Hashanah - No class, a small reading assignment instead.

Chapter 3: 3.1, 3.2 Increasing, decreasing

lecture note 5

Week 7

October 06 2008

October 07 2008

October 08 2008

October 09 2008

Chapter 3: 3.1, 3.2 (cont) 3.4 Local/global maximum/minimum. Optimization.

Yom Kippur - No class, a small reading assignment instead. Homework 3

Week 8

October 13 2008

October 14 2008

October 15 2008

October 16 2008

Homework 2 due (new due date). Chapter 3: 3.5

Chapter 4: 4.1, 4.2: Exponential and Logarithmic functions. Growing and decaying.

lecture note 6

Week 9

October 20 2008

October 21 2008

October 22 2008

October 23 2008

Chapter 4: 4.3, 4.4: Differentiation using logarithm.

Homework 3 due. Chapter 4:(summary). Chapter 5: 5.1: Anti-derivatives (introduction)

lecture note 7

Week 10

October 27 2008

October 28 2008

October 29 2008

October 30 2008

Homework 4. Chapter 5: 5.1, 5.2: Indefinite integral, integration by substitution

Chapter 5: 5.3,5.4: topics in integration: average, area

Week 11

November 03 2008

November 04 2008

November 05 2008

November 06 2008

integration by factorization

Last day to resign and receive an R. Homework 4 due. Chapter 6: Integration by parts (simple).

lecture note 8

Week 12

November 10 2008

November 11 2008

November 12 2008

November 13 2008

Exam Two (scroll down). Chapter 6: Integration by parts (advanced). Integration table.

Improper integral. Numerical integration.

test Two

Week 13

November 17 2008

November 18 2008

November 19 2008

November 20 2008

Chapter 7: Multivariable functions. Partial Derivatives

Multivariable Optimization. (covered on previous class)

lecture note 9

Week 14

November 24 2008

November 25 2008

November 26 2008

November 27 2008

Exam Two due date. Double integral and volume. Practice homework set 5.

Fall recess.

Week 15

December 01 2008

December 02 2008

December 03 2008

December 04 2008

Return of test Two. Review of the course.

Exam Three.

exam 3 review

test Two solution

December 08 2008

Return of Exam Three, in my office.

test Three solution

I will post homework under this section, most likely all will be in pdf files. Some problems are from text book, some are not. For those taken from textbook, I retype the problem (i.e., you don't need to look up in the book), change it if necessary (make it easier to understand or suit the course better), give hint (if problem is hard) and put a reference number/page before each.
Occasionally , I will post some practice problems which will not be collected, these will be titled practice. It is highly recommended that you are able to do as many of them as possible, especially BEFORE each test. Solutions are also provided, but very briefly, only to help students check up on their work. Should you have any trouble solving some of them, come to my office hours.