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Math for Liberal Arts

Online notes for Math 15, Math for Liberal Arts taught in the Fall 2016 semester at Laney College by Prof. Hubbard.

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

A link to notes on four famous mathematicians


Click on this link to read about Archimedes, Newton, Euler and Gauss.
 
Posted by Prof. Hubbard at 7:45 PM No comments:

Friday, February 22, 2019

Notes for homework #5, due Wednesday, Feb. 27

Notes on the triangle inequality, classifying triangles defined by side lengths and Heron's formula

Notes on triangles defined by three points in the plane, where one point is (0, 0)
Posted by Prof. Hubbard at 9:08 AM No comments:

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Notes for Homework #4, due Feb. 20

Notes for bels and decibels, comparing the energy in sounds and calculating the decibel reading for a group of instruments. Notes for the Richter scale comparisons.

Note for triangles defined by three angles
Posted by Prof. Hubbard at 12:27 PM No comments:

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Notes for Homework #3, due Feb. 11

Notes for scientific notation

Notes for simplifying and approximating square roots
 
Posted by Prof. Hubbard at 9:20 AM No comments:
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