FAKULTÄT FÜR

MATHEMATIK

IMPORTANT

YOU CAN HAVE A LOOK AT YOUR EXAMS ON AUGUST 10 AT 10 AM IN THE ROOM NEXT TO G03-222.

Schedule

There will be 12 lectures on Friday and 12 tutorials on Wednesday (starting on October 16).

Downloads

Tutorials and homework assignments

Each week on Friday a new problem sheet is posted on this website. They contain many problems to work on and think about. Please hand your written solution to the marked homework assignments on sheet #n in at the beginning of the tutorial in week #n+2. Your graded solutions will be handed back to you in the tutorial one week after the submission (so week #n+3). There will be presumably 13 exercise sheets, 11 of them will have homework assignments to hand in.

You may work together: on each solution sheet there may be two names.

To get the credits for the tutorial you need to have handed in written homework for at least 5 exercise sheets (with a visible effort to solve at least one of the problems). 

You can get at most 10 additional points on the exam depending on how many of the homework assignments you solved correctly. Only one of the two homework problems will be graded by the tutor. 

Remark

For additional help please check out the "MatheSupport" - an additional offer by the Faculty of Mathematics for students from other faculties.

Topics

• Sets and functions
• Vectors and matrices
• Systems of linear equations
• Determinants
• Eigenvalues
• Derivatives
• Integrals
• Derivatives of functions in several variables
• Ordinary differential equations

Exams

The exam will take place on February 21, 2020; 10-12am; room G16-H5. The re-exam is cancelled until further notice due to the covid-19.

• The written exam will be based on the lectures and the examples in the tutorials.
• You may only use a sheet of paper containing handwritten notes. Size of that paper: DIN A4, double sided.
• Getting at least 40 of the maximal 100 exam points will be sufficient to pass the exam.
• Calculators (of all kinds) are not allowed and not required.
• Other books or notes or notebooks/laptops or mobile phones are not allowed.
• Bring your IDs!
• Some exams from previous years can be found here.

Literature

You can find contents of the course in many books on basics of higher mathematics, and (of different quality) also at several places on the web. For example, many articles in WIKIPEDIA are correct and include further references. You probably also heard about Khan Academy. Here are some books on the topic of the course:

• English
  
  • "Introduction to Mathematics for Life Scientists (Springer Study Edition)",Edward Batschelet, Springer, 1979 [unfortunately, not in the OvGU library]
  • "Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis" by Sydsaeter and Hammond [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
  • "Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers: Fundamentals and Interactive Study Guide", Klaus Weltner, Wolfgang J. Weber, Jean Grosjean, Peter Schuster, Springer, 2009 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
• German
• "Arbeitsbuch höhere Mathematik: Aufgaben mit vollständig durchgerechneten Lösungen", Georg Hoever, Springer, 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
• "Ingenieurmathematik für Studienanfänger: Formeln - Aufgaben - Lösungen", Gerald Hofmann, Springer, 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
• "Höhere Mathematik kompakt", Georg Hoever, Springer, 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
• "Mathematik für Ingenieure: Eine anschauliche Einführung in das praxisorientierte Studium", Thomas Rießinger, Springer Vieweg, 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members] & "Übungsaufgaben zu Mathematik für Ingenieure: Mit durchgerechneten und erklärten Lösungen", Thomas Rießinger, Springer Vieweg, 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
• "Mathematik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler: Lineare Algebra und Analysis in R", Wilhelm Merz, Peter Knabner, Springer, 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]
• "Mathematik kompakt für Ingenieure und Informatiker", Yvonne Stry, Rainer Schwenkert, Springer 2013 [electronic ressource for OvGU members]