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David L. DeMark

Visiting Instructor in Mathematics

ddemark@bates.edu

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2026

Calculus I

MATH 105

While the word calculus originally meant any method of calculating, it has come to refer more specifically to the fundamental ideas of differentiation and integration that were first developed in the seventeenth century. The subject's early development was intimately connected with understanding rat…

Linear Algebra

MATH 205

Vectors and matrices are introduced as devices for the solution of systems of linear equations with many variables. Although these objects can be viewed simply as algebraic tools, they are better understood by applying geometric insight from two and three dimensions. This leads to an understanding o…