Mathematics Depar t ment
First Year Post Examination Essay/Project
Examples of Topics/Titles
History of Mathematics
What contributions did the Babylonians make
Egyptian mathematics
Were Egyptians mathematicians?
Ancient Representations
Pythagoras
Pythagoras' Theorem
The Pythagorean Golden Section
Beginnings of Mathematics in China
Chinese Mathematics History
The Life and Mathematical Contributions of Descartes
Tycho Brache
Galileo Galilei
Sir Isaac Newton
History of Mathematics: Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton and his anni mirabiles
A man and his apple
The intellectual and mathematical development of the young Isaac Newton
The History of the Calculus
The Golden Ages
The Life and Work of Michael Faraday
The Life and Work of Carl Frederich Gauss
Mathematical Contributions of Gauss
Life and Works of Euler
Euler and Lagrange
Joseph Louis Lagrange
A mathematical study of the life and work of Cauchy
The first true analyst
The Evolution of Mathematics
The History of Mathematics
The History of Trigonometry
Exploring infinity
The mathematics of the calendar
Mathematics in the Bible
Greek Astronomy
The history of Greek Astronomy
Classical Greek Mathematics
Euclid's Fifth Postulate - the scandal of geometry
Euclid
Euclid's Elements
Euclid of Alexandria and Leonhard Euler
Ancient Greek Mathematicians
Comparing and Contrasting the effect on Mathematics made by
Pythagoras and Euclid
The Pythagorean Theorem
Pi and its historical development
Magic Pi
The History of Pi
George Green: Miller and Mathematician 1793-1841
Whose fault is it that I have to work so hard
A 'student' and his beer: work of William S. Gossett
Life and Work of William S. Gosset Charles
Babbage: Thinking Mathematically
Is the work of Einstein and Newton any less credible because they
developed their ideas from their predecessors?
Who and what have been the major influences in the
development of mathematics in Europe
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Mathematics Department
First Year Post Examination Essay/Project
Examples of Topics/Titles
Specific Topics/Interests
Celestial Mechanics
Models of the Universe
Mathematical Methods in Astronomy
So how big is the earth?
Arguing over the Universe
The search for extraterrestial intelligence
Faster than a speeding bullet
Einstein's Twin Paradox
A time to tell
Special Relativity
The life and work of Stephen Hawking
Look what the cat's been dragged into
Schrodinger: the man behind the equation
Don't blame the weather
The theory of catastrophe
Fractals: To infmity and beyond
"Just another pretty picture?" - Fractals to-day
Mandelbrot's Solution
Benoit Mandelbrot and fractal geometry
The Chaos Theory
Mathematics in a Chaotic World
The Fibonacci Series
A brief look at prime numbers
Fermat's Last Theorem
The law of quadratic reciprocity A
study of the genius Ramanujan The
Aerodynamics of Birds' Wings
The aerodynamics of Formula 1 Race Cars
Mathematics in Sport
The Function
PEG ratios: useful or misleading
Algorithmic (musical) composition with focus on iterating
Interplay of mathematics and music
A classical view of music, mathematics and the cosmos
Mathematics of musical scales and temperaments
Taming the Wolf Cryptography
and the Enigma
Enigma
The Beale Ciphers
My first theorem
Euclidean Rings
The Regular Four-Dimensional Solids
Conics and Quadrics
The Scientific Revolution
Introduction to the financial concepts of forward, futures and options contracts A
study of Leontief economic models
Critical Path Analysis
Game Theory
Magic Squares
Trinities: a mathematical investigation
Mathematical Tricks
Complex Numbers
Complex Numbers and its applications
The Origins of Counting and Reckoning
Naïve and Axiomatic Set Theory
Mathematics Department
First Year Post Examination Essay/Project
Examples of Topics/Titles
Specific Topics/Interests (continued)
A mathematical analysis of rowing techniques
Mathematical and Physical Explanations in Sport
Painting by numbers
Can Intelligence be Calculated
Dyscalculia- is it just an excuse?
An investigation into Consumer Views on Greeting Cards
The Mathematics of Nature
An introduction to Mathematical Methods in Genetics
Population Growth
The Millenium bridge
Math living in real society
Opinion Polls
The mathematics of Electoral Systems
The National Lottery
Fear of Mathematics
Mathematics Re-education
Mathematics is difficult to learn and hard to teach
The science of art according to Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci and the Science of Art
The mathematics of M. C. Escher
Maths in Film