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Wai Yan Pong, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor, Mathematics
Department: Mathematics
Office: NSM A125
Phone Extension: x2443
Email Username: wpong
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Affordable Learning Initiatives
Show All MAT 153: Pre-Calculus MAT 191: Calculus I -- Course Materials MAT 281: Discrete Mathematics MAT 331: Linear Algebra MAT 347: Modern Geometry
MAT 153: Pre-Calculus
Spring 2012
Open source software for student access
Cost to students: $0
Savings per student: $120.50
- Online Homework System
- Geogebra (an open source software for 2D-geometry)
MAT 191: Calculus I -- Course Materials
Spring 2011Enrollment: 31 students
Spring 2012
Open source software for student access
Cost to students: $0
Savings per student: $120.50
- Online Homework System
- Sage (an open source software system for calculus, algebra, and research level mathematics)
- Geogebra (an open source software for 2D-geometry)
MAT 281: Discrete Mathematics
Fall 2012Cost of Invitation to Discrete Mathematics, new: $50.27
Cost of ebrary edition: $0
Total savings per student: $50.27
Textbook is available free of cost to students through ebrary.
- Matoušek, J., & Nesetril, J. (2009). Invitation to discrete mathematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN: 9780191524677. ebrary.
MAT 331: Linear Algebra
Spring 2012
Open source software for student access
Cost to students: $0
Savings by choosing a downloaded text: $100
There are several textbooks for this class, all of them are free for download.
- Rob Beezer's A First Course in Linear Algebra
- Peter Cameron's Notes on Linear Algebra
- Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra
- Keith Matthews' Elementary Linear Algebra
Supplemental resources:
- Online Homework System
- Sage (an open source software system for calculus, algebra, and research level mathematics)
MAT 347: Modern Geometry
Spring 2013Cost of Four Pillars of Geometry, new: $59.00
Cost of ebrary edition: $0
Total savings per student: $59.00
Textbook is available free of cost to students through ebrary.
- Stillwell, John. The Four Pillars of Geometry. New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN: 9780387290522. ebrary.