This is the main index for information on the 10-credit unit known as MSM2P01 (Sequences and Series) for second year joint honours students. Materials here are for use of Birmingham University Mathematics students only and are copyright. You must not distribute them further without permission.
The CORRECTED module plan with all basic organisational details, syllabus etc., as issued on Friday 28th September is here: msm2p01plan.pdf. This contains timetable etc. (Note the examples class time was wrong on the printed handout!)
At present there is no CANVAS page for this module. It hasn't been created as far as I know, and I cannot create it. In any case, all I would have done is to add a link to this page.
The assessed questions for exercise sheet 5 are Exercise 1 and Exercise 3.
I am ahead of schedule at present, and should have one or more extra lectures available for examples or revision. However there is a chance that the lecture and examples class on Dec 3rd will be cancelled. If this happens the lecture on Thursday 5th Dec will be the examples class, and you will be given new instructions for submission of the assignment the following week. So the worst that can happen is that we lose one or two revision lectures.
You will get full model answers and feedback to Exercise sheet 5 before you leave for Christmas. Obviously, the hand-in date for this is going to be very close to the end of term, so it may not be possible to return marked work to you by December 13th. (This is made worse by the fact that I am also currently teaching another module with the same assessment deadlines.) Please understand and be assured that the marked work will be available at the very beginning of the spring term.
The web pages at http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/seqser/ cover all of the material I shall cover here (and a little more besides). They may be useful. Note that they were written some time ago and are compliant with XHTML+MathML specifications. Some browsers (notably Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome) still do not display MathML natively if at all, may not display these web pages correctly, and are NOT recommended. Firefox should work, but in many recent versions of Firefox the content negotiation policy has changed since the web pages were written. You may have to force your browser to display XHTML (with embedded MathML) and/or PDF by clicking the links at the very bottom of each page.
If you have a little time, I recommend you look at the section on e. This is at http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/seqser/eulernumber It isn't needed for the exam, but should be worthwhile reading. It may not get covered in lectures.
Note: these web pages and on-line resources are not a substitute for attending lectures and you must look after your handouts from lectures carefully as not all of them can be replaced. They are copyright and for students taking this module only and not to be distributed further.
Richard Kaye. Go UP to undergraduate modules page.