• Math 33B: General Course Outline & Catalog Description

The course Math 33B has evolved over the years. At one time it was a course in infinite series, including power series solutions of differential equations. In the Fall of 1997 the infinite series course was renumbered as Math 31C, in hopes that students would take it earlier, but by the Fall of 1998 the course was back at the end of the calculus sequence with its original label Math 33B.

In 2004, the courses Math 33A and 33B were reorganized. The differential equations portion of Math 33A was moved to Math 33B, so that Math 33A is now a course in linear algebra and Math 33B is now a course in differential equations. The topics currently treated in Math 33B are as follows:

Introduction to first order differential equations

• second order linear differential equations with constant coefficients
• power series solutions of second order differential equations
• linear systems of differential equations