This unit provides an exposure to some of the many interesting ideas of pure mathematics, and provides foundations for further study. Topics may include cardinality, elementary number theory, equivalence relations, polynomial rings and their ideals, norms and metrics, metric spaces, completeness, compactness, and the contraction mapping principle and its consequences. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Gordon Royle
Prerequisites: MATH1001 Mathematical Methods 1 and MATH1002 Mathematical Methods 2; for pre-2012 courses: MATH1010 Calculus and Linear Algebra and MATH1020 Calculus, Statistics and Probability
