Numbers and Functions MATH10040

DANCE111

Im in first year and doing MATH10040. Struggling with it at the moment! :eek: Would anyone be able to recommend a book??? :(:eek:

GabbyG

DANCE111 wrote: »

Im in first year and doing MATH10040. Struggling with it at the moment! :eek: Would anyone be able to recommend a book??? :(:eek:

Any books dealing with elementary number theory will be fine. But if you want a specific one, I'd recommend Elementary Number Theory by David Burton. It deals with most number theoretic topics that you'll deal or have dealt with in the module e.g. primes, gcd, Fermat's Little Theorem, etc.

Can you tell me what topics you have done? You might want to refer a book dealing with discrete mathematics for stuff like the pigeonhole principle or the Binomial theorem. If you want, I can lend you some of my lecture notes from last year.

parker kent

Not my area so I can't suggest a book but I do know that the Maths Support Centre can help people struggling with maths modules.

ZZTopspin

DANCE111 wrote: »

Im in first year and doing MATH10040. Struggling with it at the moment! :eek: Would anyone be able to recommend a book??? :(:eek:

Best book you can get are last year's exams. <snip>

DANCE111

ZZTopspin wrote: »

Best book you can get are last year's exams. <snip>

Thanks for that! Will definitely be checking them out! :D:D

DANCE111

parker kent wrote: »

Not my area so I can't suggest a book but I do know that the Maths Support Centre can help people struggling with maths modules.

Thanks for that! I'll have to set up camp there! :D:D

DANCE111

GabbyG wrote: »

Any books dealing with elementary number theory will be fine. But if you want a specific one, I'd recommend Elementary Number Theory by David Burton. It deals with most number theoretic topics that you'll deal or have dealt with in the module e.g. primes, gcd, Fermat's Little Theorem, etc.

Can you tell me what topics you have done? You might want to refer a book dealing with discrete mathematics for stuff like the pigeonhole principle or the Binomial theorem. If you want, I can lend you some of my lecture notes from last year.

Hi!
Oh wow dats gr8! I looked up that book and managed to download it for free online so thanks very much for that! :D:D

We've done Proof by Contradiction, Induction, Injection/Surjection/Bijection, Binomial; Pigeonhole Principle; GCD; Euclid and Division Algorithms.

Did ye do something similar last year? I know ye had a different lecturer, so maybe some things are different?

If it's no trouble it would be great if I could borrow your notes!

Really appreciate your help!!! Thanks very much!

._.

Please reframe from insulting lecturers? You can't be serious..

DANCE111

._. wrote: »

Please reframe from insulting lecturers? You can't be serious..

I'm not insulting any lecturer. I'm just saying that there is a different lecturer for the module this year. Hence some of the topics being covered within that module may be different, that's all. No offence at all intended!

eaglej13

practice,practice,practice,practice,and practice.. 1,ooo,ooo% better than any book..

DANCE111

eaglej13 wrote: »

practice,practice,practice,practice,and practice.. 1,ooo,ooo% better than any book..

Thanks for that! I do keep rewriting the notes over and over again, but I feel I need to be doing more questions! I'm hoping a book could provide more questions and examples. Thanks for your help!!! :D:D

GabbyG

DANCE111 wrote: »

Hi!
Oh wow dats gr8! I looked up that book and managed to download it for free online so thanks very much for that! :D:D

We've done Proof by Contradiction, Induction, Injection/Surjection/Bijection, Binomial; Pigeonhole Principle; GCD; Euclid and Division Algorithms.

Did ye do something similar last year? I know ye had a different lecturer, so maybe some things are different?

If it's no trouble it would be great if I could borrow your notes!

Really appreciate your help!!! Thanks very much!

The book should have some exercises related to the topics covered in the module so you'll get a bit of practice from that. Though some of the problems are much harder than what's dealt in the course.

We've done more or less the same topics. I'll add you on facebook then. :)Makes contacting each other more convenient.

bigred100

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Please reframe from insulting lecturers? You can't be serious..

Deadly serious when the lecturer is Robert Osburn, brilliant lecturer IMO.

**Timbuk2**

I found this module fairly tough last year, but by the time the exam comes, things tend to click a bit more. We had two class tests, which helped prepare us for the final exam. The exams were quite repetitive, but do the problem sheets, and the past exams, and you should be ok.

You don't need to know any big proofs of theorems for the exam, usually just the statement, but you can be asked for small proofs (like prove that (x-y) divides (x^n - y^n)).

Do you not have Robert Osburn this year as a lecturer? He was amazing!

GabbyG

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I found this module fairly tough last year, but by the time the exam comes, things tend to click a bit more. We had two class tests, which helped prepare us for the final exam. The exams were quite repetitive, but do the problem sheets, and the past exams, and you should be ok.

You don't need to know any big proofs of theorems for the exam, usually just the statement, but you can be asked for small proofs (like prove that (x-y) divides (x^n - y^n)).

Do you not have Robert Osburn this year as a lecturer? He was amazing!

They have Dr. Kevin Hutchinson this year apparently. Dr. Osburn supposedly wanted to try something new this year so he is teaching Field Theory instead.

beardedmaster

The Hutch? Oh my.

eaglej13

DANCE111 wrote: »

Thanks for that! I do keep rewriting the notes over and over again, but I feel I need to be doing more questions! I'm hoping a book could provide more questions and examples. Thanks for your help!!! :D:D

agree. by practice i mean actual questions

best of luck