5695 (v.8) SMEC 595 - Contemporary Mathematics
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. |