Bridging The Gap
This Bridging The Gap page is mainly aimed at year 13 students who have been accepted by Oxford to read for one of the Mathematics degrees, a joint school or Computer Science. The page contains various material - reading and exercises - covering some of the most important topics relevant to a student about to begin study at university. Some of the material is on a typical further mathematics A-level syllabus, but other topics are also included. This page is still being implemented, with many other articles being planned or in the pipeline.
Of course, anyone thinking about mathematics at university, or anyone studying further mathematics, or any school teacher is welcome to make use of these articles. The codings of M, M+ and M++ determine whether the subject matter is highly relevant, of some importance, or tangential to the first year of the Oxford mathematics courses. Also the questions are graded from (A), the easiest, to (C), the hardest.
If you have any comments about this page, whether they be about errors spotted, or suggestions for future articles, then do please undergraduate [dot] admissions [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (email the Schools Liaison Officer) with your thoughts. (I am sorry, but currently there are no solutions available for the exercises).
Bridging Material:
Sutton Trust Lectures
A mini-series of three lectures entitled Numbers and Codes on modular arithmetic, Huffman codes and RSA encryption, given to year 12 students during the Sutton Trust Summer School in Mathematics, July 2004.Documentation associated with Single A-level Classes
More details of these classes, run in Oxford for first year mathematicians with single A-level in mathematics, can be found here.- Vectors and Matrices : in (PDF), (PS) formats.
- Techniques of Integration: in (PDF), (PS) formats.
- Differential Equations: in (PDF), (PS) formats.
- Complex Numbers: in (PDF), (PS) formats
- Induction and Recursion: in (PDF), (PS) formats.
Documentation from previous Bridging Courses in Mathematics
- Bridging Course Notes: in PDF format.
Copies of these bridging notes can be bought from the Institute for £10 per copy - the price includes postage to UK addresses. Send a cheque for £10 payable to "The Mathematical Institute, Oxford", together with your address, to "Dr Richard Earl, Mathematical Institute, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB".