LMS Undergraduate Project Archive

This is a developing public archive of Undergraduate Projects in Mathematics and Statistics.

The plan is to make available to hard-pressed academics a good stock of topics for undergraduate project work that have been used successfully in other institutions.

Ideally this would mean, for each project, a clear description of the work involved in the project, a good set of appropriate references and some indication of the length, level and prerequisites of the project.

The other option is to provide a simple list of topics in the hope that it sparks off ideas in the mind of the reader.

John Pulham pulham@maths.abdn.ac.uk

The two parts of the archive are :

Quickies __________

This is a simple list of project titles from a variety of sources. In most cases these are titles that have actually been used, so they are not completely fanciful. No details are presented nor have I attempted to classify the projects by subject area (always a bit of a mug's game with projects because so many people go out of their way to produce projects in non-standard areas).

See quick for this list.

Projects __________

This is a collection of properly written-up projects.

Click here for an index to the archive which will lead you on to the project descriptions.

Get a PC zip compressed union of these files by clicking here .

If the archive gets much bigger then I will try to arrange the files by subject area.

Departments are, I'm glad to say, passing their historical archives on to me. This produces one problem: the decline in the competence of maths students in recent years probably means that quite a few of the projects listed will need some toning down before current use.

A word of clarification is in order. A contact name and address is given for each project. This need not be the name of the actual supervisor for that project. It is more likely to be the person in charge of projects in that department.

Use of Projects in the Archive

They are there for you to use.

Nevertheless note that the projects should be regarded as the intellectual property of their authors, where this concept makes any sense at all.

If you propose to use the projects in a very public or commercial context then you should first get in touch with the named contact for the project.

Submission of Projects to the Archive

Please.

The archive can only become really useful if it gets really big and can allow you a significant choice of topic within a specified subject area.

It can only get bigger if people submit projects to it.

I'd be glad of any kind of submission. In order of preference:

projects written up in the style of projects and which have already been tried and tested.
similarly detailed descriptions which are not formatted in the same way (I can do that).
Titles and simple descriptions as in quickies.

I well understand that many departments do not keep records of projects in the detail of (1) and (2) and that it requires some effort (and some persuasion within a department) to get them into that form. The more detail that can be given in form (3) the better. References are extremely useful.

As to level and subject matter: Anything describable as undergraduate Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematical Physics or Mathematical Computing is fair game. I would like to avoid outright Computing Science topics.

All submissions to

e-mail ---- pulham@maths.abdn.ac.uk

FAX ---- 01224 272607

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Dr John Pulham
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Edward Wright Building
University of Aberdeen
Dunbar Street
Aberdeen AB9 2TY

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