MATH M32T
Essential Calculus for Mathematical Biologists
Description: (Same as Computational and Systems Biology M32.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A, 30B. Not open to students with credit for course 31A, 31B, 32A, or 32B. Designed for life sciences students. Methods and results of single and multivariable calculus essential for quantitative training in biology. Limits, differentiation (single and several variables), optimization, integration and methods of integration, Taylor polynomials and applications to approximation, Taylor and other power series, vector valued functions, gradients, and Lagrange multipliers. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2023 - Professor Conley is one of the best professors I have taken a class with. He is a very good lecturer and often uses visual representations to go along with the explanations he gives in class. He also includes a lot of examples in lecture. If you're stuck on homework or are confused, go to office hours. He will spend hours making sure you understand the material and will walk through tough homework problems with you. He also holds 3+ hour review sessions before each exam and essentially tells you exactly what will be on the test in terms of topics. This class is relatively tough, since it is multivariable calculus, and the tests were sometimes a little unreasonable (just my opinion). I honestly think it's just because Professor Conley is a genius and underestimates how hard some problems can be. Despite this, I would definitely take this class again with him. It's a cool way to look at how biology and math intersect.
Fall 2023 - Professor Conley is one of the best professors I have taken a class with. He is a very good lecturer and often uses visual representations to go along with the explanations he gives in class. He also includes a lot of examples in lecture. If you're stuck on homework or are confused, go to office hours. He will spend hours making sure you understand the material and will walk through tough homework problems with you. He also holds 3+ hour review sessions before each exam and essentially tells you exactly what will be on the test in terms of topics. This class is relatively tough, since it is multivariable calculus, and the tests were sometimes a little unreasonable (just my opinion). I honestly think it's just because Professor Conley is a genius and underestimates how hard some problems can be. Despite this, I would definitely take this class again with him. It's a cool way to look at how biology and math intersect.
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