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Month: October 2009

  • Dobler Receives Faculty Service Award

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    Gustavus President Jack Ohle presented Professor Carolyn Dobler, Chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, with the Faculty Service Award at today’s Founders Day ceremony in chapel.

  • A Survey of Discrete Calculus Plus Gronwall’s Lemma

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    MCS Seminar by Prof. John Holte Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:30AM Olin 321 I have long been interested in the parallels between “continuous” calculus and discrete calculus.  Finite difference formulas look a lot like familiar derivative formulas–with the right tweaking and summation formulas likewise resemble familiar integration formulas. Furthermore, Newton’s interpolating formula based on higher…