Topics and Schedule

Some key topics, roughly in order of their appearance in the course, include:

        • 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.

Please refer to your section’s class schedule (Brightspace) for more details.