Mathematics I

Integrals

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

Miscellaneous

  1. ★★☆☆☆ Polynomial interpolation and the Vandermonde matrix
  2. ★★★☆☆ Intuition to convergence
  3. ★★★☆☆ Making sense of Euler's formula
  4. Running, walking, yardsticks and Bezout's identity

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