5695 (v.8) SMEC 595 - Contemporary Mathematics


Area:

Science and Mathematics Education Centre

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

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.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

10100 Mathematical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

2

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Not Online

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y Y  
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y Y  
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area