2006 exam questions (figures missing).
PowerPoint files of last year's lectures (to be updated)
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Last year's tutorials (to be updated):
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An interactive proof of Pythagoras' theorem . Here is another version in video .
List of axioms on geometry by Hilbert.
Designer Seeds .
Unraveling the Enigma of Vitamin D .
Last year mid-term test .
Examples of Scissors Congruences .
2003
project description (updated) , and the
Million-Dollar Minesweeper , an essay on one of
the Millennium Prize Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute .
Interested in the Lindermayer System? Take a look
here .
A Java demonstration of "splitting bushes" .
Read Plato's Allegory of Cave .
Euclid's Elements .
The above reading list is suggestive rather than compulsory. Take a look and see if you
are interested in them.
Visit Beyond Discovery, a project of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) which contains inspiring stories (eg. Global Positioning System, Laser and Fiber Optics, Human Gene Test) that indicate the importance of basic scientific and engineering research.
You will need the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader . See also the History of Calculus.
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