Math 122B: Calculus II, Fall 2017

Project Descriptions and Rubrics

• Project Descriptions
• Poster Rubric
• Group Evaluation Rubric
• Reflection Rubric

Poster Preparation and Presentation

• Creating Effective Poster Presentations - an online resource hosted at North Carolina State University.
• LaTeX - how to create nice mathematical formulae.
  • LaTeX template - download this file. You will need to copy/paste in to a template on overleaf.com
  • PDF of the above template.

Resources

• How Newton discovered the Binomial Series
  • The Birth of Calculus: Towards a More Leibnizian View, by N. Kollerstrom
  • The Inverse Method of Tangents: A Dialogue between Leibniz and Newton, by C. J. Scriba
• Infinite products and a formula for π
  • Notes on infinite products
  • John Wallis (1616-1703), by W. W. Rouse Ball.
  • Wallis's Product, Brouncker's Continued Fraction, and Leibniz's Series, by J. Dutka
  • John Wallis and the French, by J. Stedall
  • The Wallis Product Formula for Pi and its Proof - online video.
• The Bernoullis, Euler and the Basel Problem
  • How Euler Did It, by E. Sandifer
  • Chapter 3, Euler: Master of Us All