5695 (v.8) SMEC 595 - Contemporary Mathematics

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Area:	Science and Mathematics Education Centre
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
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.