Integrals
- Real powers and calculus
- ★★★☆☆ Intuition to some basic ideas of calculus
- ★★☆☆☆ Understanding variable substitutions and domain splitting in integrals
- ★★★☆☆ The correct multivariate mean-value theorem (no inequality)
- ★★★☆☆ Trace, Laplacian, the Heat equation, divergence theorem
- Green's theorem and differentiation under the integral sign
Fourier analysis
- ★★☆☆☆ Fourier series and Hilbert spaces
- ★★★☆☆ Discovering the Fourier transform
- ★★★★☆ Limiting cases I: the integral of eax and the finite-domain Fourier transform
- Take the derivative matrix on polynomials and make it continuous, i.e. extend it to an integral transform -- to demonstrate sF(s)
Differential equations
- Introduction to differential equations (ways to think about: functional equations and recurrence relations, antiderivatives as basic example, algebraic equations)
- existence and uniqueness non-crossingness of solutions, method of characteristics/hyperbolic PDEs/other DE stuff
Counter-examples series
- ★★★★☆ Limiting cases I: the integral of eax and the finite-domain Fourier transform
- ★★★★☆ Limiting cases II: repeated roots of a differential equation
- ★★★★★ What's with e^(-1/x)? On smooth non-analytic functions: part I
- What's with e^(-1/x)? On smooth non-analytic functions: part II
Geometry
- A definition of geometry and trigonometry
- Hyperbolic trigonometry (what about other conic sections?)
- AM/GM and logarithms
- Jensen's inequality and higher-order derivatives
Proof-writing and logical rigor
- Introduction to proof-writing and rigour
- Resolving some "paradoxes"
- Reverse mathematics with elementary calculus
- Real analysis and the importance of sup
Numerical mathematics
- ★☆☆☆☆ Numerical linear algebra -- Matrix decompositions
- Numerical arithmetic -- algorisms
- Numerical analysis -- optimization etc.
Miscellaneous
- ★★☆☆☆ Polynomial interpolation and the Vandermonde matrix
- ★★★☆☆ Intuition to convergence
- ★★★☆☆ Making sense of Euler's formula
- Running, walking, yardsticks and Bezout's identity
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