Peter M. Garfield

Peter M. Garfield is teaching faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara. His main academic interests are in undergraduate pedagogy and curriculum development, particularly in the introductory university courses (calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations). Before accepting a permanent job at UCSB, he taught for eight years as a Preceptor at Harvard University. His PhD in differential geometry was from the University of Washington, and he has also taught at the University of Toronto and Case Western Reserve University.

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Apply tools of single-variable calculus to create and analyze mathematical models used by real practitioners in social, life, and physical sciences. In this course, we go beyond the calculus textbook, working with practitioners in social, life and physical sciences to understand how calculus and mathematical models play a role [...]