Resources

Below are links to various resources for the course.

Documents

FERPA waiver
Background survey

Lecture notes

Lecture 1	Lecture 2	Lecture 3
Lecture 4	Lecture 5	Lecture 6
Lecture 7	Lecture 8	Lecture 9
Lecture 10	Lecture 11	Lecture 11 (Handout)
Lecture 12	Lecture 13	Lecture 14
Lecture 15	Lecture 16	Lecture 17
Lecture 18	Lecture 19	Lecture 20
Lecture 21	Lecture 22	Lecture 23
Lecture 24	Lecture 25	Lecture 26
Lecture 27	Lecture 28

Fibonacci sequence

Fibonacci numbers
Golden ratio
Vi Hart - Fibonacci sequence in plants - part I, part II, part III

Fourier series

Fourier series
Fourier series (animated)
Fourier series (fancy version)

Giraffes

Giraffes - the underestimated species, NY Times
Artiodactyl brain size evolution, see Figure 3 on page 17 and Appendix B

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is an online answer engine that is very useful for mathematical problems. It can solve linear equations and find eigenvalues, but also differentiate and integrate, plot functions and much more.

Wolfram Alpha

Maple

Like Wolfram Alpha, Maple can be used for checking your solutions. At Dartmouth there is licensed software available for students. If you would like to install Maple you can follow the instructions here:

Maple

MATLAB

MATLAB, a contraction of "matrix laboratory", is a computing environment and programming language developed by MathWorks. It can be used in a similar fashion as Maple. Dartmouth has a site license for MATLAB. You can download it here:

MATLAB