Template:MATHS 108:2007 Course description

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This course is one of two post-Year 13 mathematics courses offered at The University of Auckland. This course is for those who have achieved a good result at Year 13 and who are not intending to major in mathematics. (Students with very good Year 13 results, and/or who intend to major in mathematics or statistics should take MATHS 150 as a first course).

Further details

MATHS 108 covers selected topics in Algebra and Calculus. In Calculus it begins by examining the nature of functions, continuity and limits. It then examines differentiation and its use in optimization. Later in the course integration of standard functions, and techniques of integration are revised. This is treated with more rigour than in the Year 13 syllabus. Finally functions of several variables, and partial differentiation are introduced. In Algebra the ideas of vectors and matrices are introduced and used to solve systems of equations. Matrices are then studied as mathematical objects in themselves.