Math 35 (Advanced Calculus) focuses on two very important

topics basic to both pure and applied mathematics.

1.Fourier analysis, which expresses very general functions in
terms of trig functions, and often provides the key to
understanding basic features of functions in both theory and
practice. (All kinds of spectroscopy is a good example).
The first thing is to state very carefully they main theorem for
Fourier series, and learn how to manipulate the formulas and
calculate Fourier coefficients. This involves extensive use of basic
integral calculus (integration by substitution and by parts), which
will be briefly reviewed. There are different variants of the basic
picture which have to be considered. And we will actually give a
pretty good proof of this theorem! This will take up about half of
the term.
2.An equally huge and important subject is the theory of some
basic partial differential equations which occur in science,
engineering , statistics, economics. We will only give an
introduction to this fundamental subject of pure and applied
mathematics, focusing on the heat (or diffusion) equation and the
wave equation, mainly in just the one dimensional case. The
important thing is to solve such equations given both initial and
boundary conditions.\, and this can be a complicated subject.
Some familiarity with ordinary differential equations and scientific
applications could be helpful, but is not necessary: we will develop
a simple rough picture of this from scratch.
In fact it turns out that Fourier analysis is the key to solving some
very basic and interesting equations of this sort, describing things
like heat propagation or vibration in a wire, which is our main
focus, and in a way is the first step in understanding a great
tradition of applied mathematics used in physics engineering and
elsewhere. We may also talk about the Fourier integral (an
analogue of Fourier series) for a week or so, and if it seems right
for this class talk a little about the theory of distributions (the
Dirac delta function) in an intuitive way.