Preliminary reading list?

I got a reading list from WBS as well. Suggest you don't read them unless you've been given an unconditional offer and you have decided to study there.

What's on your list?

I've just been told that I need to revise maths over the summer in case it was rusty....

Damn.

Is there a maths reading list, do you know? I haven't received anything, but it may be department-specific.

There is a surprisingly big chunk of Maths in the Economics courses from what I've seen. Well, in the module Mathematics for Economists or something.



You don't need to do any reading. If you do want to do a bit, perhaps look at Spivak's Calculus for the Analysis courses in the first year. It's a massive book but costs the same a Mary Hart's Guide 2 Analysis - A truly awful book. If you're interested you could buy it [Hart] off me in the autumn.

Differential Equations uses a lot of material and questions from 'An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations', but to be honest it's not a lot of new material beyond FM at A level.

The only thing the Maths department will really send you are some past diagnostic test papers for the test in the first week. Nothing to worry about. You can have fun the night before and as long as you manage to wake up and remember how to integrate, differentiate and to trig then you'll be fine. After all, if you meet your AEA/STEP offer, this test is trivial. And even then you can fail it and still retake and pass a few weeks later. Pass in either exam = 5% of a module for each section. Fail a section and then fail the following retake and you get 0.

I've already... erm... acquired... Spivak's Calculus in convenient pdf format... , I'm waiting until my exams are over to read it. If I decide a hard copy would be useful, I'll take it off your hands in October ;D

I'll get the differential equations book, thanks :>

Is preliminary reading list useful when u get to uni?
or is it better to go over A-level maths, etc
I'll be doing Accounting and finance