Math Profs
The chair of the math department at Harvey Mudd College
Who is Prof. Jacobsen?
This phrase, popularized by Prof Jon "Jakes" Jacobsen, is a visualization of differentiation and integration in calculus
What is "chop it up"?
The vector containing the partial derivatives of a function
What is the gradient?
The year Harvey Mudd was charted
What is 1955?
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything
What is 42?
Prof. Jacobsen's first name
What is Jon?
Roses are red, violets are blue, integral of u dv = uv - integral of v du
This property of vector fields occurs when the curl is 0
What is conservative?
The number of majors that Harvey Mudd offers
What is 10?
Claremont CA's nickname
What is the City of Trees and PhDs?
Where Prof. Kagey earned his PhD
Any critical point of a function can only occur when the derivative is undefined or equal to this value
What is 0?
What is curl?
What got replaced by the Hoch dining hall
What is a swimming pool?
First planted in Rio in the 1770s, by 1830 it was Brazil’s top export.
What is coffee?
Prof Kim's job involving finance before she came to Harvey Mudd
What is a stock fund manager?
This theorem gives an expression for the definite integral of a function equal to the difference of the antiderivative evaluated at both bounds
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?
This theorem says that the circulation around the boundary of a positively oriented closed simple curve is equal to the circulation within the region bounded by that curve
What is Green's Theorem?
The reason why there are no bathtubs in any of the dorms
What is someone in Atwood was making and selling meth?
The mountain in Issaquah, WA, that Miranda lives a 10 minute drive from
What is Poo Poo Point?
Prof. Kim's dissertation title
What is “Quasi-invariance for families of infinite-dimensional SDEs with degenerate noise”
This polynomial is constructed by using increasingly higher orders of derivatives to approximate the value of a function
What is a Taylor polynomial?
This theorem is the 3D generalized case of Green's Theorem
What is Stokes' Theorem?
The best course offered at Harvey Mudd College
What is Math 19: Single and Multivariable Calculus?
The only solo artist to have five Billboard No. 1 albums before the age of 19.
Who is Justin Bieber?