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Math 121- Calculus for Biology I Spring Semester, 2008 Acknowledgements |
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San Diego State University -- This page last updated 23-Jan-08 |
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Math 121- Calculus for Biology I Spring Semester, 2008 Acknowledgements |
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San Diego State University -- This page last updated 23-Jan-08 |
The author wants to first express his thanks to the Department of Biology at San Diego State University for their encouragement and contributions to the development of this course. Many of the faculty have provided examples that have been incorporated into the notes and computer labs, which have helped provide the valuable connections needed by the students to better understand why they should learn mathematics for their major in Biology. Several of the faculty have been particularly supportive of the use of a computer laboratory to help these students learn mathematics and develop computer skills, which are becoming increasingly important in the Biological Sciences. (The author started development of this coursemany years ago by creating special computer labs for the standard course.) Professor Roger Whitney was very encouraging and helped with the early stages of developing this course on the web, so deserves special credit for getting the author to embark on this task.
The author is especially thankful to Louise Wilson for her help with many of the applets developed for this webpage and her many hours of help proofreading the text on these webpages. He also is very appreciative of the work by Tal Polany for his web expertise and artistic abilities that made the current version of this webpage possible. Tal provided the fundamental layout of the webpage and designed many of the animated .gifs. The author was also helped by Catherine DeMarco, Treggon Owens, and many of the Biology students who have gone through the course.
The author has "borrowed" many things from the web, asking permission from the sources. Links have been included to many of the sources, but the auther does not guarantee to keep these updated! Special gratitude goes to Leigh Brookshaw, who has provided a graph package for Java to assist the internet community ( you need to download this package in order to use anly of the applet sources given as links in this course). Russell Kightley Media granted permission to use the HIV images. Charl Lucassen 's web presentations of the first moving picture sequences gave one of the early inspirations for doing a web-based Calculus, because it relates so well to the derivative.