Course Identification

Title:

Mathematics module: Mathematics around us

Code:

20186031

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Dmitry Novikov

TA's:

Dr. Ary Shaviv

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2018

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Thursday, 13:00 - 14:10, WSoS, Rm B

Tutorials
Thursday, 14:15 - 14:45, WSoS, Rm B

First Lecture:

31/10/2017

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; 2.00 points

Comments

For both 1st and 2nd year students

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

20

Other:

For students in the Rothschild-Weizmann program only

Language of Instruction

Hebrew

Attendance and participation

Obligatory

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

30%

Final:

70%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

6

Syllabus

During the course we will examine some everyday technologies in order to understand what kind of mathematics they use. We will mostly follow the book "Mathematics and Techonology" by Ch. Rousseau and Y. Saint-Aubin, and will cover such topics as GPS, error-correcting codes and RSA, image and audio compression and some others.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

Demonstrate basic knowledge and skills required for reading popular mathematical books, broaden their mathematical knowledge, get a taste of mathematics as a developing science.

Reading List

"Mathematics and Techonology" by Ch. Rousseau and Y. Saint-Aubin

Website

N/A