James B. Hart

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Middle Tennessee State University
Office: KOM 226A    Phone: (615) 898-2402
Email: Jhart@mtsu.edu

 

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SPRING 2012 (Effective January 12)

OFFICE HOURS

MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

TUESDAY - THURSDAY 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM  

Other Office Hours By Appointment

EMERGENCY POLICY
In the event of severe weather or other emergency, class will meet unless the University is closed.  If Murfreesboro CITY SCHOOLS are closed, then graded activities will be postponed until the first day CITY SCHOOLS reopen.  New material covered during the postponement period will not be added to the postponed activities.  If needed, additional information will be sent to the class via the email addresses on my class roll.  

Class Links

Precalculus Competency Test
 Try Calculus I Practice Final.
 Try Calculus II Practice Final.
Try Calculus III Practice Final
 Try Trigonometry Practice Final.

Class Handouts

CALCULUS I

Limits of Algebraic Functions
Formal Limit Definition
Introducing the Derivative
Key to Quiz 1
Key to Practice Exam I
Useful Trigonometric Identities
Key to Exam I
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

 


SPRING 2012 Teaching Schedule

Calculus I (Math 1910-011)        
This is the first in a three-course sequence on the calculus.  Topics covered include limits laws and computation of limits, a thorough exploration of derivatives and their applications, and an introduction to antidifferentiation and the definite integral.  This course meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday  11:30 AM -12:25 PM and Tuesday 11:20 AM - 12:15 PM in KOM 225.
 
Abstract Algebra II (Math 4530-5530 001)        
This is a proof-based course which provides a thorough exploration of rings.  Topics covered include review of intermediate group properties, introduction to the major classes of rings, subgrings and ideals, isomorphisms, product and quotient rings, and homomorphisms.  This course meets Tuesday and Thursday 4:20 PM - 5:45 PM in KOM 221.
 
 

  

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     MATH HELP LABS
    

Math tutoring is available as a free service to MTSU students in KOM 204 and 252.  Tutoring is conducted by Graduate Teaching Assistants, work study aides, and a faculty moderator.  Tutors in Room 252 give priority to the calculus sequence (including precalculus).  Tutors in Room 204 give priority to all other lower division math courses.  Tutoring will be available Monday through Friday between September 7 and December 7, except on MTSU scheduled holidays.  Please sign in with your name, course, and instructor when you enter the lab.  Forms for comments on your experience in the lab are located at the sign-in table.  If you feel the need to make comments, please give your forms to the Department Secretary in KOM 223D.  All comments are taken very seriously and if necessary will receive a prompt response from the Lab Coordinator.  

TIMES (Effective January 23, 2012)

KOM 204         Mon-Thur 8:00AM-4:00PM    Fri 8:00AM-12:00PM

KOM 252        Mon-Wed 8:00AM-5:00PM   Thursday 8:00AM-4:00PM   Friday 8:00AM-12:00PM

KAHN ACADEMY
Instructive Math Videos for All Occasions

 

MIT ONLINE LECTURES
Lectures in Advanced Mathematics
 

 

 

 

Links to Professional Organizations

Stuff to Read

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Competition

Palindromic Sentences

Process Philosophy and Premonition (1986 Honors  Thesis)      Red Tide (A Short Story)
                                    
Solving Cubic and Quartic Equations      Residuated Lattices and Posets (Seminar Notes)
   
   
 
 

 

 

 

 

Personal Information

I was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 18, 1963.  My earliest recollection is the assassination of M.L. King, Jr.  I thought someone had shot Burger King.  I attended J.L. McClellan High School (some years later), where I played bass clarinet in the marching band and learned how to type.  I also learned that if you mix every chemical in the chemistry lab together and pour it all down the sink, you can make a really great geyser (and get the building evacuated).

I fell in love with mathematics at Hendrix College, where I graduated with High Honors in 1986. (I stayed away from the chemistry lab.)  I got my doctorate in mathematics at Vanderbilt University in 1991, and I have been at MTSU since then.

 


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