maths honours courses..help!

[OffHeGoes]

Well wasn't Waves just extremely... alright. First 3 Qs were easy marks, 4 was a little bit fiddly but 5 could have been much worse.

Oh how i hate not having past exam papers to reassure me... spent a few wasted days worrying about that one.

[paint_idle]

Quoting offhegoes from 00:29, 16th Jan 2007
Well wasn't Waves just extremely... alright. First 3 Qs were easy marks, 4 was a little bit fiddly but 5 could have been much worse.

Oh how i hate not having past exam papers to reassure me... spent a few wasted days worrying about that one.

Yeah, it was ok!
Same, first few questions fine, then struggled a bit at the end and ran out of time. But seems to be happening in all the exams!
Glad it's over though.

Good luck for the rest of them!

[Eagon]

Thanks for the advice, does anyone else have any info on honours courses, which ones to avoid?

I'm going into 3rd year choosing modules for MMath

[The Kinky Monkey]

Yeah. DO NOT CHOOSE FINANCIAL MATHS. It is boring as all shit and badly taught. All the notes are on the web and he literally just goes through the notes.
Solar Theory is good. Pretty hard, but well taught so that makes it a little easier.
Symbolic Computation is just practice on Maple. The notes are all on the web, and its an open-book exam too, which is crazy.

Hope that helps a little!

Quoting Eagon from 11:38, 2nd May 2007
Thanks for the advice, does anyone else have any info on honours courses, which ones to avoid?

I'm going into 3rd year choosing modules for MMath

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[Malcolm]

Quoting The Kinky Monkey from 11:58, 2nd May 2007
Yeah. DO NOT CHOOSE FINANCIAL MATHS. It is boring as all shit and badly taught.

Isn't that a Prof Cairns module? Par for the course, then.

[ONeill]

Cairns has a talent for clearing his throat around 120 times per lecture. It can go unnoticed until someone points it out and then it becomes unbareable.

Linear/Non Linear Waves wasn't helped by the fact the Chinese dude had no idea how to do the tutorial questions himself. Every week he'd struggle to find the right solution to even one of the questions he set. Often finding that he'd made an error which he'd attempt to wipe out by sticking in another error so his result matched the answer on the printed solutions.

[Malcolm]

Quoting ONeill from 20:59, 2nd May 2007
Cairns has a talent for clearing his throat around 120 times per lecture. It can go unnoticed until someone points it out and then it becomes unbareable.

I noticed it immediately, and when you're in a big class like MT1001 it gets to a lot of people.

Interestingly, he was also my tutor and never cleared his throat once during any of my tutorials.

[Guest]

Measure Theory if taught by Olsen is a good course. If Stratmann teaches it also probably worth taking as it underpins most of advanced analysis.

Groups is a great course, it's pretty hard and the exam is not straight forward but well taught and interesting material.

Fractal Geometry is good fun and made a lot easier if you do the Measure Theory course.

Finite Fields has a lot of material, some pretty advanced stuff but the exam is piss easy.

Semigroups is a nice course and is well taught, it does have compulsory hand in questions every week, so if you're a term-time slacker this is one to miss.

And if none of that appeals just do an independent study module for 20 credits, some lecturers will work you hard, others not so much.

[JAK]

Topics in Groups is probably on one of the best MMath courses, if you don't mind algebra. There's a lot of stuff, but lectures and notes are very clear.

Courses by Stratmann tend to be hard, but can be ultimately very rewarding if you put a lot of work in.

Graph Theory [which won't be on next year, but will be in two years time] is a cute little course, which isn't too hard, but is pretty interesting. If you're entering the third of a 4 year MMath it might be an idea for your final semester, when you'll want to take as few modules, with as low workloads as possible, because of your dissertation. I know a couple of people who didn't and lived in the microlab for a couple of weeks.



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