• Four Science Terps Awarded 2025 Goldwater Scholarships

    Four undergraduates in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) have been awarded 2025 scholarships by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and research careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics.  Over the last 16 years, UMD’s nominations… Read More

  • Announcing the Winners of the Frontiers of Science Awards

    Congratulations to our colleagues who won the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award: - Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, for his join paper with Humbler and Seyfaddini: “Proof of the simplicity conjecture”, Annals of Mathematics 2024. - Dima Dolgopyat & Adam Kanigowski, for their joint paper with Federico Rodriguez Hertz: “Exponential mixing implies Bernoulli”, Annals of Mathematics… Read More

  • 2024 Putnam Results

    We are very excited to report that our MAryland Putnam team ranked 7th among 477 institutions that participated in the 2024 Putnam math competition. Our team members this year were Daniel Yuan, Isaac Mammel, and Clarence Lam. Daniel Yuan ranked 26th among 3,988 participants. Clarence Lam and Isaac Mammel were recognized for… Read More

  • From Math Olympiads to Diplomacy: Meet Visiting Math Professor Qendrim Gashi

    Maryland Global, published a great interview with our visiting professor (and diplomat), Qendrim Gashi. The interview is available at https://marylandglobal.umd.edu/about/news/math-olympiads-diplomacy-meet-visiting-math-professor-qendrim-gashi Read More

  • Eugenia Brin, Longtime Supporter of Science and Performing Arts at UMD, Dies

    Eugenia Brin, a Russian immigrant and retired NASA scientist who, with her family of accomplished Terps, became an important benefactor of the University of Maryland, died on Dec. 3, 2024. She was 76 years old. The rest of the article can be read here: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/eugenia-brin-1948-2024 Read More
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Description

This is a first-semester course in calculus with applications in biology and life-sciences.

Prerequisites

A grade of C- or better in MATH 112, MATH113, or MATH115; or permission of department based on 3 1/2 years of college preparatory mathematics (including trigonometry) and satisfactory performance on the MATHEMATICS PLACEMENT EXAM. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: MATH 130 or MATH 140 or MATH 220.

Topics

Functions, Limits, Continuity

Exponential and Logarithmic Functions and Applications (Growth and Decay)
Trigonometric Functions
Limits, Continuity and Rates of Change

Derivatives

Definition of the Derivative
Techniques for Finding Derivatives, Derivatives of Products and Quotients
The Chain Rule
Derivatives of Exponential, Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions

Applications of the Derivative

Increasing and Decreasing Functions
Relative Extrema
Higher Derivatives and Concavity
Curve Sketching
Absolute Extrema and Applications of Extrema
Implicit Differentiation
Related Rates

Integrals

Anti-derivatives
Substitutions
Area and Definite Integral
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Integrals of Trigonometric Functions

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