5695 (v.8) SMEC 595 - Contemporary Mathematics


Area: Science and Mathematics Education Centre
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
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Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Selection of an agreed number of topics - management sciences - street networks, visiting vertices, planning and scheduling, and linear programming. Social choice and decision making - weighted voting systems, fair division and apportionment. Shape - symmetry, patterns, tilings. Size and shape - growth and form and geometric growth. Independent study - statistics and probability, coding, information, game theory, conic sections or non Euclidean Geometry.
 
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Field of Education: 10100 Mathematical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 04 - Mathematics, Statistics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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