Some key topics, roughly in order of their appearance in the course, include:
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- notion of functions, classical functions;
- limits and continuity;
- derivatives and their interpretation; differentiation rules;
- exponential functions, inverse functions, logarithmic functions, and their derivatives;
- linear approximation, differentials, elasticity;
- local and global extrema, higher-order derivatives, and convexity;
- function of several variables, partial derivatives;
- optimization for functions of several variables.
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The class schedule can be found on this link. We will meet synchronously only on Tuesdays (Section 1) and Wednesdays (Section 6). During the other class times (Thursdays for Section 1 and Mondays for Section 6), asynchronous videos will be assigned. Please use the Zoom link for lecture and recitation on NYUClasses. Recitations are on Fridays.