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Queues
Calculus of Small Increments
Exeter Trip
The Brachristochrone Problem
ISBN Numbers
Initial Value Problems
Getting Married
Reduction to Linear Form
Reading List & Useful links
Student Work

 


Reading List
 
  • Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics -George F. Simmons, McGraw Hill 1991
  • Chance and Necessity - Jacques Monod Fontana 1974
  • Does God Play Dice - Ian Stewart, Penguin 1997
  • Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? - Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky
  • Fermat's Last Theorem – Simon Singh, Fourth Estate 1998
  • Five Equations that changed the World – Michael Guillen, Abacus 1995
  • From Here to Infinity – Ian Stewart, Oxford University Press 1996
  • God and the New Physics - Paul Davies, Pelican, 1984.
  • How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff, Pelican 1991.
  • In Code: A Mathematics Journey – Sarah Flannery, David Flannery, Profile Books 2000
  • Invitation to statistics - Gavin Kennedy, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1983
  • Journey Through Genius - William Dunham
  • Laws of the game Eiger and Winkler - Penguin Books Ltd 1983
  • Order out of chaos - Prigogine and Stengers, Fontana 1985
  • Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking and Being - John D Barrow Penguin 1993.
  • Statistics in Action - Peter Sprent, Pelican 1977.
  • Taking Risks - Peter Sprent, Pelican 1988.
  • The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins, Longman 1986.
  • The Book of Numbers - John Conway and Richard Guy.
  • The Cosmic Blueprint - Paul Davies, Heinemann 1987.
  • The Mathematical Experience - Davis and Hersh, Penguin Books 1983.
  • The Mathematical Universe - William Dunham
  • The Recursive Universe - William Poundstone, Oxford University Press 1985.
  • The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins, Paladin Books, 1979
  • Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis Faberand Faber 2000.
  • What is Mathematics – Richard Courant, Ian Stewart, Oxford University Press 1996
  • 1089 and All that - David Acheson, OUP September 2002.

Useful Links  

Careers link

www.universityoptions.co.uk

Careers link

www.prospects.co.uk

Step link

http://meikleriggs.org.uk/

Ask Dr Maths website

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Maths at University

http://www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk/pdf/UniversityMathsTalk.pdf

Solution to university problem

http://www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk/pdf/CircleSolution.pdf

Careers in Maths compared with other subjects

http://www.prospects.ac.uk

LMS Maths Careers website

http://www.mathscareers.org.uk

Careers: Maths Higher Education places to study

http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/uk_maths.html

University of Kent careers website for Maths

www.kent.ac.uk/careers/maths.htm

UK feature “Why study Maths ?”

www.he.courses-careers.com/mathematics.htm

University of Derby . Links to sites

www.derby.ac.uk/careers/Best_of_webs/Best_of_the_web_maths.htm

UK Maths departments

www.ma.hw.ac.uk/uk_maths

Careers on Maths ( University of New South Wales)

www.maths.unsw.edu.au/Degrees/index.html

Careers: Society for industrial and applied Maths

http://www.siam.org/careers/

Links to Andy’s Maths pages

http://www.mathsdot.plus.com/maths/links.htm

The Math Forum - Magic Squares

http://www.mathforum.org/alejandre/magic.square/adler/adler.whatsquare.html

Mr Excel - Magic Squares

http://www.mrexcel.com/tip069.shtml

History Of Magic Squares

http://www.MarkFarrar.co.uk/msqhst01.htm

The Times Good University Guide - Maths

http://juni.osfc.ac.uk/Aim_Higher/Maths/docs/20maths.pdf


Documents  
Queues - Andrew Preston PowerPoint Icon
Calculus of Small increments - Andrew Preston PowerPoint Icon
Chaos - Chloe Stott PowerPoint Icon
Coding, ISBNs & Bar Coding - Hudson PowerPoint Icon
Exeter Trip - OSFC PowerPoint Icon
Fermat’s Last Theorem - Kelly Oakes PowerPoint Icon
Fibonacci Numbers - OSFC PowerPoint Icon
If you can't bend it, model it! - Mital Chothani PowerPoint Icon
Maths Of Sports - Mushtaq Ahmad PowerPoint Icon
The Multiverse - OSFC PowerPoint Icon


 
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