Welcome to the Epiphany and Easter terms Single Maths A webpages. The course aims to provide science students with some of the mathematics that they will find relevant and useful, and help them think logically. The Epiphany term will cover series, Taylor series, vector spaces and matrices. The Easter term covers quadratic forms.

The recommended textbook for the course is K.F.Riley, M.P.Hobson, S.J.Bence, Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering, CUP, 3rd Ed. 2006 (ISBN 9780521679718) and Blythe and Robertson, Basic Linear Algebra.Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series 2nd ed. 2002, XI, 232 p. (Click here to see the University Library NetLibrary copy of the former.)

See the lecture summaries page to see what is coming up in the next few lectures.