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David Kerr
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
local: (727) 864-8437
toll-free: (800) 456-9009
Mathematics
Enrollments & Textbooks
Herewith a listing of average class sizes in each of our courses and information on the textbooks we usually use. Since Eckerd does not have a mandatory minimum class size, many of our upper-division courses meet with even a small number of students enrolled.
Survey of Mathematics
- Average class size - 30
- Typical textbook - Kerr's in-class notes
- Offered once a year
Precalculus
- Average class size - 30
- Typical textbook - Ratti & McWaters' Precalculus
- Offered every semester
Calculus I
- Average class size - 30
- Typical textbook - Stewart's Essential Calculus
- Offered every semester
Calculus II
- Average class size - 26
- Typical textbook - Stewart's Essential Calculus
- Offered every semester
Statistics, an Introduction
- Average class size - 28
- Typical textbook - Moore, McCabe & Craig's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
- Offered every semester
Calculus III
- Average class size - 17
- Typical textbook - Stewart's Essential Calculus
- Offered every Fall Semester
Differential Equations
- Average class size - 20
- Typical textbook - Zill's First Course in Differential Equations
- Offered every Spring Semester
Linear Algebra
- Average class size - 20
- Typical textbook - Lay's Introduction to Linear Algebra
- Offered every Fall Semester
Optimization Techniques
- Average class size - 4
- Typical textbook - Diwekar's Introduction to Applied Optimization
- Offered occasionally
Computational Linguistics
- Average class size - 17
- Typical textbook - Merchant's in-class notes
- Offered every other year
Learnability and Linguistic Theory
- Average class size - 17
- Typical text book - Merchant's in-class notes
- Offered every other year
Probability and Statistics I and II
- Average class size - 9
- Typical textbook - Wackerly, Mendenhall & Scheaffer's Mathematical Statistics with Applications
- Offered every other year
Abstract Algebra I and II
- Average class size - 4
- Typical textbook - Bland's Basics of Abstract Algebra
- Offered every other year
Combinatorics
- Average class size - 8
- Typical textbook - Tucker's Applied Combinatorics
- Offered occasionally
Dynamical Systems
- Average class size - 6
- Typical textbook - Strogatz's Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- Offered occasionally
Numerical Analysis
- Average class size - 5
- Typical textbook - Burden & Faires' Numerical Analysis
- Offered occasionally
Fourier Analysis
- Average class size - 10
- Typical textbook - Walker's Fourier Analysis
- Offered occasionally
Introduction to Topology
- Average class size - 4
- Typical textbook - Munkres' Topology
- Offered occasionally
Partial Differential Equations
- Average class size - 6
- Typical textbook - Logan's Applied Partial Differential Equations
- Offered every other year
Mathematical Logic
- Average class size - 15
- Typical textbook - Cori, Lascar, and Pelletier's Mathematical Logic, Parts I and II
- Offered every other year
Real Analysis I and II
- Average class size - 4
- Typical textbook - Schramm's Introduction to Real Analysis
- Offered every other year
Complex Analysis
- Average class size - 5
- Typical textbook - Marsden & Hoffman's Basic Complex Analysis
- Offered every other year
