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Read the "Mathematician spotlight" links anytime and all the time.
Number
Video
Lecture notes
Mathematician spotlight
1
Lines, curves, cross product
playing with planes
Diana Davis
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Dance your PhD video
2
Functions of several variables
colors!!!
John Urschel
;
podcast interview
3
New coordinates
curvy graph paper
Moon Duchin
;
article
4
Quadric surfaces
colorful families!
Ralph Gomez
;
interview
5
Limits
vertical surface parts require care
Emily Riehl
;
interview
6
Derivatives
slopes if you are an Etch-A-Sketch
Richard Schwartz
;
Math picture books
7
More on derivatives
creases and cusps are not differentiable
Piper Harron
;
The Liberated Mathematician blog
8
Higher-order partials
everything up a dimension
Ryan Hynd
9
Chain rule
functions of functions (of functions)
Sarah Koch
10
Directional derivatives
slopes if you are not an Etch-A-Sketch
David Rockoff
11
Gradients
route-planning using calculus
Ron Buckmire and Dean Elzinga
;
interview
12
Extrema
make your life the absolute best
Radia Perlman
13
Extrema on bounded domains
make your life the best... under constraints!
Kathryn Lindsey
;
article
14
Lagrange multipliers
the coolest idea in this course
Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour
15
More on Lagrange multipliers
farming and animal husbandry
Nsoki Mamie Mavinga
16
Double integrals
an integral OF an integral!
Erik Demaine
;
interview
17
Riemann sums
finding volumes when you don't have the function
Autumn Kent
;
interview
18
More on double integrals
finding the area of any region
Rodrigo Trevino
19
Changing order of integration
making the impossible, possible
Eriko Hironaka
20
Triple integrals
finding volumes!
Yitang (Tom) Zhang
;
New Yorker article
21
More on triple integrals
bounds to region; region to bounds
Dusa McDuff
;
podcast interview
22
Even more on triple integrals
changing triple integral order of integration
Jayadev Athreya
;
dodecahedron paper
23
Integrals in polar coordinates
translating round things into suitable coordinates
Evelyn Lamb
;
Roots of Unity blog
24
Change of variables
plus Gauss's clever idea
Colin Adams
;
interview
25
Cylindrical and spherical integrals
what a tiny box looks like in curvy coordinates
Amie Wilkinson
;
interview
26
Parametric curves
for houseflies who keep track of their mileage
Federico Ardila
;
article
27
Vector fields
modeling the wind
Rachel Epstein
28
Divergence and curl
measuring sources, sinks and swirls
Dylan Thurston
29
Scalar line integrals
areas of curvy fences, total charges on wires
Steve Robinson
30
Vector line integrals
how much the wind helps or hurts you
Yajnaseni Dutta
31
Green's Theorem
vector line integrals become double (scalar) integrals!
Pamela Harris
;
article
32
Conservative vector fields
if you go in a loop, your net elevation change is 0
Harrison Bray
33
Parameterized surfaces
wrapping the plane into a curved surface
Siddhi Krishna
;
isotopy animation
34
Scalar surface integrals
how to find the area of a decorative fascinator
Henry Segerman
;
stereographic projection video
35
Vector surface integrals
counting how much krill you'll catch in your net
Katherine Johnson
;
interview video
36
Stokes's Theorem
turning a vector surface integral into a vector line integral
Edgar Duenez
;
profile
37
More on Stokes's Theorem
doing magic with theorems
The LGBTQ+ mathematician
38
Gauss's Theorem
the FTC, *two* dimensions up!
Gwyn Coogan
39
More on Gauss's Theorem
closing off those pesky holes
Illya V. Hicks
40
Summary of course
we can integrate all the things over all the things!
Lila Fontes