This is the course web page for MAS352 and MAS61023, known collectively as MASx52.
To contact the lecturer: r.n.stephenson@sheffield.ac.uk (semester 1), n.p.freeman@sheffield.ac.uk (semester 2)
Lectures are at 12pm on Wednesdays in LT E, and 10am on Fridays in LT C, in the Hicks building.
Exercises and solutions can be found inside the lecture notes (below).
Assignments will be set in lectures, three times per semester, to be handed in, marked and also returned in lectures.
Office hours are at 1.30-3 on Fridays in room 18 on floor I of the Hicks building. You may simply turn up, but priority will be given to those who book a time. If those times are not possible for you, please email to arrange a convenient time. Please bring your (incomplete!) solutions to problem sets and/or questions from the lecture notes.
Lectures will use the blackboard, and occasionally slides. Please bring your copy of notes to lectures, for reference and annotation.
Lecture notes (part 1), also containing exercises and solutions.
Lecture notes (part 2), also containing exercises and solutions.
Web-page version of lecture notes (part 1), with identical content to the pdf.
Web-page version of lectures notes (part 2), with identical content to the pdf.
Assignment 1, Solutions
Assignment 2, Solutions
Assignment 3,
Formula sheet, available in the exam, also appears within the appendices of the lecture notes.
MAS352 assessment:
The exam lasts 3 hours, and the rubric reads:
"Candidates should attempt ALL questions.
The maximum marks for the various parts of the questions are indicated.
The paper will be marked out of 100."
The summer exam lasts 3 hours, and the rubric reads:
"Candidates should attempt ALL questions.
The maximum marks for the various parts of the questions are indicated.
The paper will be marked out of 85."
First/second year probability and analysis revision notes.
VLE pages (Blackboard)